Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. [ Jul. Caes ]

Who reasons wisely, is not therefore wise,
His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. [ Pope ]

Grace is the proper relation of the acting person to the action. [ Winckelmann ]

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. [ William Shakespeare ]

A woman and her servant, acting in accord, would outwit a dozen devils. [ Proverb ]

It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it. [ J. F. Boyes ]

Understanding is a mechanically, wit a chemically, and genius an organically, acting spirit. [ French Schlegel ]

Suspicions are nothing when a man is really true, and every one should persevere in acting honestly, for all will be made right in time. [ Hans Andersen ]

They who neglect the opportunity of reaping a small advantage in hopes they shall obtain a better, are far from acting on a reasonable and welladvised foundation. [ S. Croxall ]

Great Men are the inspired (speaking and acting) Texts of that Divine Book of Revelations, whereof a Chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History. [ Carlyle ]

A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]

The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late. [ Goethe ]

It is very singular, how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them. Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood or betray its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]