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William Shakespeare
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of th... BIBLE He that is thy friend indeed, he will help thee in thy need: if thou sorrow, he will weep; if you wa... RICHARD BARNFIELD Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first... MARGARET COURTNEY Were't not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honored love,
I rather... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The saddest aspect of life is that there is no one on earth whose happiness is such that he won't so... HERODOTUS Ancient of days! august Athena! where,
Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?
Gone-... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if ... BIBLE If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy ... EPICTETUS The only thing that sucks worse than a bad finish is a bad finish with a fast racecar. DALE EARNHARDT JR The fires are worse now than they were two days ago, GREG EDWARDS If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as ... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young me... BIBLE Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man... BIBLE Make me over, Mother April,
When the sap begins to stir!
When thy flowery hand delivers
... RICHARD HOVEY Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door. ADELA FLORENCE NICOLSON Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, / Less than the weed that grows beside thy door. LAURENCE HOPE Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt ... BIBLE My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. CLARA SCHUMANN The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons
The pigeons, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon ... AESOP He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep;... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Would I were dead, if God's good will were so,For what is in this world but grief and woe? WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than the... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Better than all measures
Of delightful sound,
Better than all treasures
That in books ar... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY He made them, and they were big for us. I just hate that we wasted that performance with a loss. BERTRAND BERRY So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he a... BIBLE I can't teach them that game experience in the time I have them for the two years. What you can teac... BOB SWAN When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor
replies, "Yet he was more original th... RALPH WALDO EMERSON He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and ni... ROBERT CORMIER He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. HORACE He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass HORACE Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any like... BIBLE And will 'a not come again? And will 'a not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am Thy servant to do Thy will, and that will is sweeter to me than position or riches or fame, and... A.W. TOZER O Bruscus, cease our aching ears to vex - with thy loud railing, at the softer sex; No accusation w... ACILIUS O Bruscus, cease our aching ears to vex - with thy loud railing, at the softer sex; No accusation wo... ACILIUS Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite,
Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,
That banish wh... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got a... LISA KLEYPAS There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They said that Superman was faster than a speeding train. If that's the case, how fast were his sper... ANTHONY T. HINCKS How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out
of thy sleep?
Yet a little sleep,... BIBLE If hindrances obstruct the way,
Thy magnanimity display.
And let thy strength be seen:
B... WILLIAM COWPER Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other. THOMAS FULLER He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take aw... BIBLE If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes... HERBERT N. CASSON If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes... ROBERT N. C. NIX Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overh... HAROLD BLOOM And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, whi... BIBLE And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou ... BIBLE A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and t... GEORGE HERBERT Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly. PROVERB Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the fi... BIBLE Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land,
Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;
And thou, too ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy... JOHN DONNE Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy... JOHN DONNE The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a... CUTHBERT SOUP Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Lord, it belongs not to my car... RICHARD BAXTER I can't think of anything worse than calling Shakespeare 'highbrow,' because on the one ... TIMOTHY DALTON I'm having so much fun watching these guys have fun. What's incredible is they were bettering their ... BOB CUNEO Ah! were I sever'd from thy side,
Where were thy friend and who my guide?
Years have not seen... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken... BIBLE Show us Thy ways oh Lord; teach us Thy ways to walk faithfully; teach us, O Lord, how to walk; lead ... WILLIAM PENNINGTON Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occup... BIBLE Spirit divine, attend our prayers. And make this house thy home; Descend with all thy gracious p... ANDREW REED England! awake! awake! awake! / Jerusalem thy sister calls! / Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death... WILLIAM BLAKE He says that he didn't see anything wrong with the dogs. He thought they were okay. He said they wer... LARRY MCKINNON And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: / And the river ... BIBLE The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I think Tim was a little tentative in the beginning. He had two open looks in the first half and if ... PAT KENNEDY There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead. ANTHON ST. MAARTEN I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go w... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If Hamilton were on Twitter, he would have been a worse oversharer than me. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Wit thou well that I will notlive long after thy days. SIR THOMAS MALORY Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe. JAMES BEATTIE That thou mayest win to the sweetness of God's love, I set here three degrees of love, in the which ... RICHARD ROLLE Thy shoes shall be of iron and brass: and as thy days, so shall
thy strength be. BIBLE It wasn't that they were that much better than we were or we were so much worse than they were. We j... HENRY CARTER Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. RANSOM RIGGS Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman ANN BRASHARES They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of ... BIBLE Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in thes... BIBLE Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. BIBLE And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break ... BIBLE The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY And most surely they turn them away from the path, and they think that they are guided aright: / Unt... QURAN The true way to be humble is not to stoop till thou art smaller than thyself, but to stand at thy re... PHILLIPS BROOKS The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. SAMUEL SMILES Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much eas... MAE WEST Love thy neighbor -- and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much ea... MAE WEST Love thy neighbor--and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easi... MAE WEST To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ide... JEAN ROSTAND To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ide... JEAN ROSTAND It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and wh... STEPHEN GREENBLATT Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as o... BIBLE Thou are never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which he permits for the purif... MOLINOS Teach your children that a person is more valuable than any treasure found on this earth, teach them... MARTIN SUAREZ
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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. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Jesters do oft prove prophets WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and... 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.
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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. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and brea... 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... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE