Quotes with circus

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• A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

  Burt Lancaster
  American actor and producer (1913 - 1994)
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• Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.

  Ben Chaplin
  English actor, director and writer (1969 - )
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• But who looks for serious conduct at the public shows? A Cato never goes to the circus. Anything said there by the people as they celebrate should be deemed no injury. It is a place that protects excesses. Patient acceptance of their chatter is a proven glory of princes themselves.

  Variae, Bk. 1, no. 27; p. 19

  Cassiodorus
  Roman statesman
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• Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

  E. B. White
  American writer (1899 - 1985)
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• Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.

  Erica Jong
  American author (1942 - )
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• In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

  Bil Keane
  American cartoonist (1922 - 2011)
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• Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.

  Juvenal
  Roman poet
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Subjects in these quotes:

• pennsylvania
• perspiration
• bullfights
• outlining
• democracy
• hollywood

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