“Tis the last act which crowns the play.”

“The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“Be a clown, be a clown,
All the world loves a clown.
Act the fool, play the calf,
And you'll always have the last laugh.”

Cole Porter (1891–1964) American composer and songwriter

“I'm sick of playing all of these games
It's not about taking ties.”

Jordin Sparks (1989) American singer, winner of 2007 American Idol

“5120. 'Tis the last Feather, that breaks the Horse’s Back.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

“For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?”

Desiderius Erasmus book The Praise of Folly

“The first of the
line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

“The Fuehrer declared that the Jews have played their final act in Europe, and therefore they have played their final act.”

Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892–1946) austrian chancellor and politician, convicted of crimes against humanity in Nuremberg Trials and sentenced …

“I act as the tongue of you,
… tied in your mouth…. in mine it begins to be loosened.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist