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  • We are the buffoons of our children.

    Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”
  • There is one school of thought that says Mayors should cut ribbons, be funny and be a buffoon. The other school of thought is that we can do more. Scotland is getting more powers. Wales is getting more powers. Greater Manchester. London needs more powers.

    Source: www.alastaircampbell.org
  • "Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.

    James Gleick (2011). “Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman”, p.8, Open Road Media
  • Betcha I wet cha like hurricanes and typhoons, got buffoons eating my pussy while I watch cartoons.

    Art   Media   Pussy  
  • Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch.

    "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 201.
  • It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.' ... It is like a passing fool in a crowd of the University, a buffoon in the hall; for all the things in Paris has made, it alone has neither wits nor soul.

  • Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon.

    School   Men   Thinking  
  • I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun.

    Fun   Play   Scotland  
    Interview with Сhristina Radish, collider.com. December 9, 2013.
  • I listen back, and I hear what's there, and I know in my heart, in my gut, that we [The Replacements] were the real deal. No one can take that away. You can call us buffoons, or clowns or whatever. But when we wanted to, we were as good as anybody.

    Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.
  • If Christians could be trained to provide solid evidence for what they believe and good answers to unbelievers’ questions and objections, then the perception of Christians would slowly change. Christians would be seen as thoughtful people to be taken seriously rather than as emotional fanatics or buffoons. The gospel would be a real alternative for people to embrace.

    William Lane Craig (2010). “On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision”, p.18, David C Cook
  • Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was in accordance with true medical principles.

  • Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

  • I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.

  • Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!

    Play   Tunes   Buffoons  
    Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.53, Luigi Pirandello
  • In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

    Malcolm Muggeridge (1980). “The End of Christendom”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
  • There have been candidates who've been right on trade but wrong on the other two, right on war but wrong on the other two, right on immigration but not interested in the other two. It is this writer's belief that [Donald] Trump is the first one to come along, despite what a big buffoon everybody says he is. He is the only guy that's put his finger on the problems and the comprises and the areas that need to be addressed in order to owe direct the route which our country is traveling.

    Country   War   Order  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?

    Science   Cosmos   World  
    Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.29, Vintage
  • With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

    Class   Tongue   Faces  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • That is Obama's signature move: Invent people who are saying ridiculous things and then encourage the audience to laugh at these made-up buffoons.

  • It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

    Laughter   Men   Shining  
  • Islam is the religion of peace. And Islam, genuine, real Muslims are as opposed to Al-Qaeda and ISIS as we are. That is what has been dictated to our law enforcement agents by their superiors. If those were your instructions, and you have a terror attack and you're out there reporting to the media, trying to answer questions, you'd sound like a babbling buffoon, too, because you'd have to come up with ways to violate the very common sense you know is true.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon. And people looked at me and said, "Gee, that's like Uncle David", or "That's like a friend of mine.". And they related through that. I didn't make fun of them. I made fun of me.

    Uncles   Fun   People  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached intellectual heights that Roth will never attain. Roth is a petty bigot and his ignorant remarks about black culture expose him as a buffoon to scholars the world over.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • You're never going to see me playing a buffoon.

  • I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

    Artist   Acting   Titles  
    Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”
  • At the same time, you had Barack Obama as a president. You had Hillary Clinton on track, all the Democrats looking good. And, you know, Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch. And, over time, you came to realize that Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message. And, slowly, I think, even as a show, we started shifting in tone as the election started shifting.

    Thinking   People   Track  
    "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.
  • It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.

    Laughing   Soul   Fancy  
  • Ahmadinejad is just a buffoon, sort of a clown on the international scene who tries to be provocative so he can get his name in the paper and his face on television.

    Names   Trying   Faces  
    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • Now I think liberals have gone from underreacting to Trump and saying that Trump is just a clown and a buffoon, and that Hillary Clinton's going to kick his ass, to now overreacting, and saying, "Oh my God, 60 million people consciously endorsed a white supremacist for president."

    Thinking   White   People  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • That's where I'm comfortable - playing a jackass on the scene, rolling in with my pocket watch and my buffoon hairdo, with my shoes.

    Shoes   Pockets   Rolling  
    Source: www.avclub.com
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