"Waggishness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Abu Nowas, who was * For mad debauch and waggishness renowned: 'O tribe that loves the cheeks of boys, take fill * Of joys in Paradise shall ne'er ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... not towards men, it will take unto other living creatures; as it is seen in the Turks, a cruel people, who nevertheless are kind to beasts, and give alms to dogs and birds; insomuch as Busbechius[47] reporteth, a Christian boy in Constantinople had like to have been stoned for gagging in a waggishness a long-billed fowl. Errors indeed in this virtue of goodness or charity may be committed. The Italians have an ungracious proverb, Tanto buon che val niente.[48] And one of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Machiavel,[49] ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I • Francis W. Halsey |
