Avoid Prologues. They can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword.
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?
I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me.
The past is prologue.
Honest error may play prologue to wonders.
Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.
Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion
Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.
Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.
What is past is prologue.
How many pages are there in my life?? I’ve read only a prologue. . But personally it’s exciting already.
Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.
From the black ocean comes the appearance of light and waves. It helps you imagine birth. I want imagination in the photographs I take. It's like a prologue. You wonder, What's going on? You feel something is going to happen.
