Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.
He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
I was what you are, you will be what I am.
Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.