"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
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“World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.”
“Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,Pale in her anger washes all the air,That rheumatic diseases do abound;And through this distemperature we seeThe seasons alter: hoary-headed frostsFall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.”
“Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?”
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“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.”
“Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."”
“Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.'”
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“There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.”
“We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.”
“My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.”