All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.