| 1. | Vidushaka is evidently the buffoon and jester. - from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana |
| 2. | And just as the buffoon and satyr are foreign to him in body and conscience, so Aristophanes and Petronius are untranslatable for him. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 3. | Sombre is human life, and as yet without meaning a buffoon may be fateful to it. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 4. | Nastasya Ivanovna the buffoon sat with a sad face at the window with two old ladies. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | Goliardais a babbler and a buffoon Golias was the founder of a jovial sect called by his name. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 6. | The man who does not laugh, like the man who does not make faces, is already a buffoon at heart. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 7. | There are many divers ways and modes of surpassing see THOU thereto But only a buffoon thinketh "man can also be OVERLEAPT.. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 8. | Yet had he not gone a hundred steps, when there stole a man up to him and whispered in his ear--and lo he that spake was the buffoon from the tower. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 9. | When he was just midway across, the little door opened once more, and a gaudily-dressed fellow like a buffoon sprang out, and went rapidly after the first one. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 10. | "O ye wags, all of you, ye buffoons Why do ye dissemble and disguise yourselves before m. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 11. | Full of clattering buffoons is the market-place,--and the people glory in their great men These are for them the masters of the hour. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 12. | So unlearn, I pray you, the sorrow-sighing, and all the populace-sadness Oh, how sad the buffoons of the populace seem to me to-day This to-day, however, is that of the populace. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |