"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." ― William Shakespeare Topic(s): Great More From William Shakespeare "Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!" "I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart." "Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent." More In Great "They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates."― David Herbert Lawrence "The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it."― Jean Baudrillard "Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one."― Mark Twain