All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.
William Shakespeare
Related All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never per... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All lovers swear more performance than they are able WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own ... BARBER B. CONABLE, JR. I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I'm very happy with the performance of all the kids. Even in the losses, they gave it all they had a... JAMIE WISE William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t... PETER SELLEY Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income ... BARBER CONABLE They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; the... ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Natural born geniuses, like Mozart or Shakespeare, don’t have anything more than you — they have... DEREK RYDALL Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do. ELBERT HUBBARD Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do ELBERT HUBBARD Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b... SAM LEVENSON What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of. DON WILLIAMS, JR What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of. DON WILLIAMS JR There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more mel... SUN TZU All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note ... CHARLES PETZOLD Women...are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. JAMES STEPHENS Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. JAMES THURBER Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead ... HENRY WARD BEECHER The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. WINSTON CHURCHILL The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Never promise more than you can perform. PUBLILIUS SYRUS The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficu... WINSTON CHURCHILL We have now been able to track star formation in galaxies out to modest distances, more than half th... DAVID KOO There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a... EDITH HAMILTON It is the technical part of the performance which is troubling me more than the musical part. ZUBIN MEHTA Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million... TOM CHATFIELD But what was more violent than making people disbelieve in the worth of their own lives? What was mo... ISHMAEL BEAH Our mornings were never "rise and shine." They were "rise and fight." They were loud and ravaging. T... MALAK EL HALABI The enlightened worry less than others, quarrel less than others, fight less than others,<... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The whole soul is in the whole body, in the bones and in the veins and in the heart; it is no more p... GIORDANO BRUNO Who dares deny that this is true: The whole is more than all its parts? A whole love than div... ARTHUR DILLON Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a re... MARGARET CHO There are nearly 300 million PC users out there now, and so that gives us a very, very broad market.... JEFF RAIKES One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. MERLE SHAIN I mean, you come to an apologetics class and you find way more than ten years ago that they themselv... PAUL CHAMBERLAIN Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. SIGMUND FREUD Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all ... EDWARD EVERETT HALE One more inch, less than an inch, and it would've gone in. ALEXIS KENDRICK The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that '... RICHARD ROGERS There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo... WASHINGTON IRVING They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps... ERICH MARIA REMARQUE There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they... MARK LAWRENCE Advertising is much less powerful than advertisers and critics of advertising claim, and advertising... MICHAEL SCHUDSON A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words. GEORGE ADE Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had,... EDWARD EVERETT HALE One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. MERLE SHAIN One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. HAROLD COFFIN In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They ar... KATHRYN LASKY The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this... NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI It's more than the finger of one hand but probably less than 150 or 200. DAVID BLANCHARD There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is n... WALT WHITMAN They're much harder to detect. They can be moved more readily, and are more portable of course, and ... JOHN MCLAUGHLIN There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combinatio... PAUL KLEE Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think abou... CHARLES LAMB Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less. CHARLES LAMB They tend to give themselves more opportunities, both players, because of their dominating length, g... JIM FURYK Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. The... COLIN FIRTH Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do ELBERT HUBBARD Less than 5% of human population are entrepreneurs & they are richer than 95% of human population th... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men. KATHY ACKER Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation. ELVIS MITCHELL An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment ELBERT HUBBARD Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than t... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Depending how they take workouts some kids have a range and some less than others. Her range is more... CLIFF ROBBINS A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they cons... CHARLES ERWIN WILSON A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they cons... CHARLES ERWIN WILSON Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end... C.S. LEWIS The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more... EDGAR ALLAN POE There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo... WASHINGTON IRVING Active Listeners, listen more than they talk. Listen more than is comfortable. Listen more than most... FARSHAD ASL It is observed that the red-haried of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, ... JONATHAN SWIFT There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo... WASHINGTON IRVING Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less CHARLES LAMB We are slowly moving back onto the shelves but we still have less than one tenth of the retailers we... LOUIS HONORE Less in haste better than more and most in courage better than all DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK God does not demand that every man attain to what is theoretically highest and best. It is better to... THOMAS MERTON Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all th... EDWARD EVERETT HALE Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds --- all they have had, all ... EDWARD EVERETT HALE Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of. SISTER CORITA KENT Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of. SISTER CORITA KENT Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why ... VIVIEN LEIGH They are the biology of the planet much more than plants and animals. BRIAN LANOIL A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. JOSEPH JOUBERT A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve JOSEPH JOUBERT The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity... A. EDWARD NEWTON There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloqu... WASHINGTON IRVING The Florida defense, the biggest difference I see between them and a Big Ten defense is they are a l... BRIAN FERENTZ What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, b... EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON If the bargain is that you are going to get lower property taxes but higher sales taxes, that is no ... DENNIS HARTNETT I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ... MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ... MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ... MARCUS AURELIUS Folks who never do more than their paid for, never get paid for any more than they do. ELBERT HUBBARD In a U.S. election year, they err on the side of doing less rather than more. PETER CHANDLER Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they ... LAURENS VAN DER POST She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could... ELIZABETH BOWEN You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of th... ELIZABETH ASTON
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I come t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
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For vice ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no vice so simple but assumes
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(So it be new, there's no respect how vile)
That is... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hoy-day!
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Often have you heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold;
... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thou art rich, thou'rt poor,
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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:
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When thou art all the better part of me?
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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
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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... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE