 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 616 pages
...Yes, I have gained my experience. Enter ORLANDO. Ros. And your experience makes you sad : I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me sad ; and to travel for it too. ORL. Good day, and happiness, dear Rosalind ! JAQ. Nay then, God be wi' you, an you talk in blank... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt - 1852 - 566 pages
...gained my experience. * Trifling. Enter OHLANDO. Bos. And your experience makes you sad : I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me sad ; and to travel for it too. Orl. Good day, and happiness, dear Rosalind ! Jaq. Nay then, God be wi' you, an you talk in blank... | |
 | Michigan Schoolmasters' Club - 1913 - 304 pages
...the nomadic Jaques, "I have gained my experience." "And your experience makes you sad : I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad ; and to travel for it, too !" Not that I believe this to be the whole answer: Tennyson's Ulysses, for example, suggests something... | |
 | 1884 - 990 pages
...hands. Jaq. Yes, I have gained my experience. Ros. And your experience makes you sad : I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me sad ; and to travel for it too! " Jaques, unused to be picked to pieces in this way, — for the people about the banished Duke,... | |
 | Vera Brittain - 1994 - 676 pages
...indicated the depressing effect of my superfluous presence upon my fellow-students : " I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me sad ; and to travel for it, too !" This speech was followed by several others which, because they lacked Winifred's poise and wit,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...from despair; a narrow escape into faith. Christopher Fry (b. 1907) British playwright I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. Rosalind, As You Like It William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet Comedy, like sodomy,... | |
 | David Richman - 1990 - 212 pages
...of true melancholy. The moment ends as Rosalind's next line modulates back to satire: "I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad — and to travel for it too" (4.1.24-26). The pensive moment is like a brief passage in a minor key set in a piece of music... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 pages
...shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt. — Abraham Lincoln I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. — William Shakespeare When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1993 - 134 pages
...have gained my experience. ORLANDO draws near ROSALIND And your experience makes you sad: I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad — and to travel for it too! ORLANDO Good day, and happiness, dear Rosalind! [she takes no heed of him JAQUES Nay then, God... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 pages
...I have gained my experience. Enter Orlando ROSALIND And your experience makes you sad. I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad - and to travail for it too! ORLANDO Good day, and happiness, dear Rosalind! JAQUES Nay then, God buy you, an... | |
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And your experience makes you sad: I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me sad ; and to travel for it too. Orl. Good day, and happiness, dear Rosalind ! Jaq. Nay then, God be wi' you, an you talk in blank verse. 
