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.
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.
In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IX, line 853.
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
