Silly Roll Call

Famous quotes containing the words silly, roll and/or call:

    “Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals, a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    “Roll on, thou ball, roll on!
    Through pathless realms of Space”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “‘Tis to yourself I speak; you cannot know
    Him whom I call in speaking such a one,
    For you beneath the earth lie buried low,
    Which he alone as living walks upon:”
    —Jones Very (1831–1880)