Sad Clown Bad

Famous quotes containing the words sad, clown and/or bad:

“I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, . . .”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

“For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there is all the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.”
—Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809–1852)

“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)