A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it.
William Shakespeare
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Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him who makes it
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The secret of a poem, no less than a jest's prosperity, lies in the ear of him that hears it.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
PAUL SIMON All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
PAUL SIMON I wouldn’t put it past you,” Kaldar said. “Or him. Who knows what the hell he might do?”
ILONA ANDREWS Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A mistake? The most passionate night of his life was a mistake? Her first time and that’s what she...
R.L. MATHEWSON Hunter woke suddenly. A noise.
It was a noise unlike anything he’d ever heard before. Close! ...
MICHAEL GRANT it took
losing him
to finally
find
myself.
It took
losing him AMANDA LOVELACE Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film)
DEYTH BANGER I drew him in my world;
I write him in my lines,
I want to be his girl,
he was never ...
LANG LEAV Every eye sees its own special vision,
every ear hears a most different song.
In each man's ...
DEAN KOONTZ When God hears us worshipping Him, that alone makes Him feel worthwhile to be God!
RAPHAEL BEN LEVI I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had...
SCOTT LYNCH Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used bef...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Chops"...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY ...The lies we tell, and let ourselves believe, in the name of love.
The first thing you ...
CARLA BUCKLEY William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN He is the half part of a blessed man,
Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I wil...
FRANTZ FANON Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry.
Katherine: If I be waspish, best ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Move him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unso...
WILFRED OWEN What can that faith do for him in his need?
It teaches him to bear adversity
With patience t...
ROBERT FERGUSON [I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at ...
HOMER For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner,
Let it change ...
NICHOLAS A. BASBANES There's only one of him, she thought, and he's right here.
He knows I'll like a song befo...
RAINBOW ROWELL Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were hi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A song she heard
Of cold that gathers
Like winter's tongue
Among the shadows
It ...
ROBERT FANNEY There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field
There passes for a moment the fig...
ALBERTO CAEIRO If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.
DEYTH BANGER Start by pulling him out of the fire and
hoping that he will forget the smell.
He was supp...
CAITLYN SIEHL Saving You
The darkness takes him over,
the sickness pulls him in;
his eyes�...
LANG LEAV Saying of the Prophet
Tasks
Whoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his...
IDRIES SHAH It was him against the flames and he revelled in it.
Logan was good at his job. Exceptionally g...
AMY ANDREWS I know they don’t respect the lives of others…”
“Mortals,” he specified, “who...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH She lends her pen,
to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.
LANG LEAV So that's it?" Kenji says. "You just like him for his personality, huh?"
"What?"
TAHEREH MAFI By the Valg, three were made,
Of the gate-Stone of the Wyrd:
Obsidian the gods forbade
SARAH J. MAAS Three forty-five-pound plates on each side of what Kenji told me is an Olympic bar, which weighs an ...
TAHEREH MAFI I ain't never seen a creature like that before, she says. He's so smart, he's-
More, like a per...
MOIRA YOUNG This world is a joke, and I'm in it
OLIWAH GOUDEE Well, hell yeah! I’m gonna kick your ass, too!”
I narrowed my eyes at him. “Not this time...
JAMIE MCGUIRE The Blue Bird
from The Last Night of the Earth Poems
there’s a bluebird in my hear...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a do...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with:
"In the name of God, the...
SAADAT HASAN MANTO The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different fr...
MAX HEINDEL The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is said in one of the Upanishads:
Na vā arē putrasya kāmāya putrah priyō bhavati, ātma...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE My eyes in tears
Heart never sighs
My mind never fears
I conquer the lies
MUNIA KHAN So the earth is shaking
Here the word's faking
As there's no time for lies.
Kiss a...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dont shave,I like it..It helps with one of my new fantasies."
"Yeah ?"Zack shifted a litt...
JENNIFER CRUSIE Upon him I will visit famine and a fire,
Till all around him desolation rings
And all the ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I love my mother.
My mother loves my dad.
Those two facts are undeniable.
JOHNA PASSARO And I remember when I met him, it was so clear that he was the only one for me. We both knew it, rig...
LANA DEL REY There's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Maybe one of the monsters ate him," Daphne whimpered.
"That would be awesome," Puck said.
...
MICHAEL BUCKLEY My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No homework. I got suspended,” Blue replied.
“Get the fuck out,” Ronan said, but with ad...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Love makes you do,
the best of things.
Love makes you do,
the worst of things,
...
JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER He who has lived and thought can't help
despising people in his soul;
him who has felt dis...
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the pl...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG Jesus is the perfect name!
He who put away his fame!
And persecuted in shame!
That yo...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR He's a pit bull," Adam said.
"I know some really nice pit bulls."
"He's the kind of pit th...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Something tugged inside him. A flutter of unease.
Do you sing? Those had been her first words t...
MARIE RUTKOSKI CUP AND OCEAN
These forms we seem to be are cups floating in an ocean of living conscious...
RUMI For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always wit...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I did not run to him, but I did wrap my arms around him, press my ear to his chest, hold on to him a...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON When she found a place of her own
and packed her bags he asked her to marry him. She kissed him...
IAN MCEWAN A BOAT beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July —
LEWIS CARROLL Use Names.
Calling a person by name makes him/her feel recognized, appreciated, and spec...
SUSAN C. YOUNG They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heave...
EMMUSKA ORCZY When a man gives you a rose what you see may not be what he intends. You may think he sees you as de...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Was that me? Yes it was. Was that him? No it wasn't..
Just a trick of the woods!
Just ...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM The Rider
A boy told me
if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness c...
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE What if your brother is dying and you can't stop it. What do you do?"
...
"You help him fi...
ALICE HOFFMAN Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ He was without any comforts of God — no feeling that God loved him — no
feeling that God pi...
ROBERT MURRAY MCCHEYNE He’s an indulgent sort of man……
With a quick lip and a fierce tongue, the sort of t...
COCO J. GINGER Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE GOD IS EVERYTHING WE EVER NEEDED
He is the arm that holds us up at our lowest point
EUGINIA HERLIHY Never Flinch.' A cold whisper in her ear. 'Never fear. And never, ever forget.'
The girl nodded...
JAY KRISTOFF
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though she be but little, she is fierce.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the worlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ent...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is too young to know what conscience is.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Were't not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honored love,
I rather...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In my mind's eye, Horatio.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to
trouble about whether he's happy o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living.
Satisfaction is death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for tre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like
an old tale that the verity of it ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My heart hath one poor string to stay it by,
Which holds but till thy news be uttered,
And the...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,
Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ten day ago I drowned these news in tears;
And now, to add more measure to your woes,
I come t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's villainous news abroad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If't be summer news,
Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st
But keep that count'nance st...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
To wage against the emnity o' th' air,
To be a comra...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now we sit close about this taper here
And call in question our necessities.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When most I wink, then do my eyes best see
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition--
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a li...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it al...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning;
One pain is less'ned by another's anguish;
Tur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity
(So it be new, there's no respect how vile)
That is...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hoy-day!
What a sweep of vanity comes this way!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold;
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thou art rich, thou'rt poor,
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear'st thy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
Who worship d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What, man! more water glideth by the mill
That wots the miller of; and easy it is
Of a cut lo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner:
Honest water, which ne'er left man i' th' mire.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can
support a boat or overturn it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
So is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Make not your thoughts you prisons.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
When thou art all the better part of me?
What can min...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cry havoc! and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carri...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not that I have the power to clutch my hand
When his fair angels would salute by palm,
But for...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have be...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Merchant Of Venice
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious l...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overst...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A politician is one that would circumvent God.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate to pray they have their will;
The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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