Silly Roll Call

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

    If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigour as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honour of our wives and daughters?
    Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)

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

    I do know of these
    That therefore only are reputed wise
    For saying nothing; when I am very sure
    If they should speak, would almost damn those ears
    Which hearing them would call their brothers fools.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)