Acute Stage

Famous quotes containing the words acute and/or stage:

“Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

“When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)