GAINST stupidity the gods themselves combat in vain.
Heinrich Heine, Art Notes from Paris.
ON LOVE AND MARRIAGE.
IS highly rational, we can't dispute,
That Love, being naked, should promote a suit;
But doth not oddity to him attach
Whose fire's so oft extinguished by a match?
R. Garnett, Idylls and Epigrams.
ORD SHELBURNE could say the most provoking things, and yet appear unconscious of their being so. In one of his speeches, alluding to Lord Carlisle, he said, "The noble lord has written a comedy." "No, a tragedy." "Oh, I beg pardon, I thought it was a comedy."
Rogers, Table Talk.