Upon Saint Crispin's day Fought was this noble fray, Which fame did not delay To England to carry; Oh, when shall English men With such acts fill a pen, Or England breed again Such a King Harry?

-Drayton, Michael
  Of the Battle of  Agincourt. Poems Lyrick and Pastorall,'To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, His Ballad of  Agincourt'.

Mr Creston Clarke played King Lear at theTabor Grand last night. All through five acts of Shakespeare's tragedy he played the king as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

-Field, Eugene
c.1880   Attributed review in the Denver Post.

Une ample Come¤  die a'   cent actes divers, Et dont la sce'  ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.

-La Fontaine,Jean de
  Fables, pt.5, no.1,'Le bu"   cheron et Mercure'.

Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.

-Pasternak, Boris
  Doctor Zhivago.

Men are rewarded and punished not for what they do, but rather forhow theiracts are defined.Thisiswhy men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

-Szasz,Thomas Stephen
  The Second Sin.

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly- mobileöand the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.We owe that to ourselves and our crippled self-image as something better than a nation of panicked sheep.

-Thompson, Hunter S(tockton)
  The Great Shark Hunt,'Jacket Copy for Fear and Loathing in LasVegas'.

That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered, acts Of kindness and of love.

-Wordsworth,William
  'Lines composed a few miles aboveTintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of theWye',1.33^5.