Mimic Quotes
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And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.
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More Mimic Quotes
She's all states, and all princes I, Nothing else is. Princes do but play us; compared to this, All honour's mimic, all wealth alchemy.
john donne— c.1595-1605 'The Sun Rising', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).
And when his hours are numbered, and the worldIs all his own, retiring, as he were not,Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished ArtTo mimic in slow structures, stone by stoneBuilt in an age, the mad wind's night-work,The frolic architecture of the snow.
ralph waldo emerson— The Snow-Storm
Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.
subhash kak— The Prajna Sutra.
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.
joseph addison— No. 225. (The Tatler (1711–1714))
"My take on what happened with the moon landing was [......] they suspect [ sic ] that on impact that the cameras would be damaged because back in 1969 cameras weren't, you know, like they are today, as good. So they had a studio set up at CBS to mimic the moon landing. And sure enough the cameras broke and so they flipped, you know, the CBS studio on. And what you saw of the footage of the '69 moon landing was actually at CBS studio."
kent hovind— "Creation Evolution and Dinosaurs session #5 Q&A", 1:55, January 2002
"My take on what happened with the moon landing was [......] they suspect [ sic ] that on impact that the cameras would be damaged because back in 1969 cameras weren't, you know, like they are today, as good. So they had a studio set up at CBS to mimic the moon landing. And sure enough the cameras broke and so they flipped, you know, the CBS studio on. And what you saw of the footage of the '69 moon landing was actually at CBS studio."
— "Creation Evolution and Dinosaurs session #5 Q&A", 1:55, January 2002
Welcome, dear Goldenrod, once more, Thou mimic, flowering elm! I always think that Summer's store Hangs from thy laden stem.
Horace scudder— Horace H. Scudder, To the Goldenrod at Midsummer.
Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.
james russell lowell— James Russell Lowell, The Lesson.
The negligence of Nature wide and wild, Where, undisguised by mimic art, she spreads Unbounded beauty to the roving eye.
james thomson— James Thomson, Spring (1728), lines 71-73.
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.
joseph addison— Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 225 (1711–1714)
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
john dryden— John Dryden, Fables, The Cock and the Fox, line 325
Winged mimic of the woods! thou motley fool! Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe? Thine ever-ready notes of ridicule Pursue thy fellows still with jest and jibe: Wit, sophist, songster, Yorick of thy tribe; Thou sportive satirist of Nature's school; To thee the palm of scoffing we ascribe, Arch-mocker and mad abbot of misrule!
— Robert Wilde, D.D., Sonnet, To the Mocking-Bird, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 520.
