False Prophesying

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or prophesying:

    “What makes all doctrines plain and clear?
    About two hundred pounds a year.
    And that which was proved true before
    Prove false again? Two hundred more.”
    —Samuel Butler (1612–1680)

    “The night has been unruly. Where we lay,
    Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say,
    Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death,
    And prophesying with accents terrible
    Of dire combustion and confused events,
    New-hatched to the woeful time.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)