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Quote Left A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. Quote Right
Quote Left If you receive an e-mail with a subject of 'Badtimes,' delete it immediately WITHOUT reading it! This is the most dangerous E-Mail virus yet. It will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream goes melty, drink all your beer, make you fall in love with a penguin, give you nightmares about circus midgets, leave the toilet seat up and kill your dog. Quote Right
Quote Left To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started, and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad. Quote Right
Quote Left Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. Quote Right
Quote Left A lone carnival voice Sings tunes of nobody's choice, And on a vacant lot, Some one just forgot, Standing all alone, Turning on its own. Weary merry go round, Grows slowly into the ground, And faded circus acts, Sorrow broke their backs, And their sadness cries From their staring eyes. Still small children come And bring your harm of play, Spirits all alive To drive the ghosts away. Useless merry go round, Tomorrow they'll tear you down, To build the parking lot If it lives or not, It was just a toy, All it brought was joy. Quote Right
Quote Left Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit Quote Right
Quote Left I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus. Quote Right
Quote Left When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. Quote Right
Quote Left I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Quote Right
Quote Left Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. Quote Right
Quote Left A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes. Quote Right
Quote Left Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. Government Quote Right
Quote Left I just don't know what happened ... I feel as if I'm trying to scrounge around and pick up the pieces in the midst of this media circus. Quote Right
Quote Left 'When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.' Quote Right
Quote Left I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork. Quote Right
Quote Left But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of, their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus. Quote Right
Quote Left A dog who attends a flea circus most likely will steal the whole show. Quote Right
Quote Left Two things only the people desire: bread, and the circus games. Quote Right
Quote Left I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold... Quote Right
Quote Left Nightcrawler You know, outside the circus, most people were afraid of me. But I didn't hated them. I pitied them. Do you know why Because most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes. Quote Right
Quote Left Half circus and half Supreme Court. Quote Right
Quote Left Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus. Quote Right

Member Quotes About Circus

Quote Left "One day you'll see past the childhood curtains, and fairytale dreams of rainbows, clouds and the circus." Quote Right
Quote Left I must be an elephant working in a circus. I work for peanuts and I'm surrounded by a bunch of clowns. Quote Right
Quote Left Depression is a clown's way of telling you the circus is closed! Quote Right
Quote Left not my circus, not my monkeys Quote Right

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