Prologue Quotes
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"This is the start, the beginning The prologue to the yarn that you're spinning A million synonyms will never get close to describe the feeling"
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Here then will we begin the story: onlyadding thus much to that which hath been said, that it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself.
Bible (Apocrypha)— Maccabees 2:32.
In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IX, line 853.
Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
william congreve— 1693 Bellmore to Belinda. The Old Bachelor, act 5, sc.10.
A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
— James Madison, letter to W.T. Barry (1822-08-04)
It is a foolish thing to make a long prologue, and to be short in the story itself.
— II Maccabees, II. 32.
What's past is prologue.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Tempest (c. 1610-1612), Act II, scene 1, line 253.
A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
james madison— Letter to W.T. Barry (1822-08-04)
A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
— James Madison, Letter to W.T. Barry (1822-08-04).
A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
— James Madison, Letter to W.T. Barry (1822-08-04)
We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again: And, by that destiny, to perform an act, Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.
— Antonio, scene i, QOTD 2008·04·23 Sound file
