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William Shakespeare: King Lear, Act III, Scene IV
Scene IVThe heath. Before a hovelEnter King Lear, Kent, and FoolKentHere is the place, my lord; good my lord, enter: The tyranny of the open night's too rough For nature to endure.Storm…Mundaka-Upanishad: First Mundaka, Second Khanda
Second Khanda1. This is the truth: the sacrificial works which they (the poets) saw in the hymns (of the Veda) have been performed in many ways in the Treta age. Practise them diligently, ye…Amy Lowell: The Grocery
The Grocery"Hullo, Alice!" "Hullo, Leon!" "Say, Alice, gi' me a couple O' them two for five cigars, Will yer?" "Where's your nickel?" "My! Ain't you close! Can't trust a feller, can yer." "…Brewer's: Foolscap
A corruption of the Italian foglio-capo (folio-sized sheet). The error must have been very ancient, as the water-mark of this sort of paper from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century…Brewer's: Tom Foolery
The coarse, witless jokes of a Tom Fool. (See above.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Tom LongTom Fool's Colours A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O…Brewer's: April Gentleman
(An). A man newly married, who has made himself thus “an April fool.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894April SquireApril Fool A B C D E F G H I J K…Brewer's: Gouk
or Gowk. In the Teutonic the word gauch means fool; whence the Anglo-Saxon geac, a cuckoo, and the Scotch goke or gouk. Hunting the gowk [fool], is making one an April fool. (See April.)…Ecclesiastes: 7
Ecclesiastes Chapter 7 1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go…Aesop's Fables: The Fowler and the Lark
by Aesop The Eagle and the BeetleThe Fisherman PipingThe Fowler and the Lark A Fowler was setting his nets for little birds when a Lark came up to him and asked him what he was doing. "I…Brewer's: Parolles
(3 syl.). A man of vain words, who dubs himself “captain,” pretends to knowledge which he has not, and to sentiments he never feels. (French, paroles, a creature of empty words.) (…Trending
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