I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Are you saying I'm not a badass? Then all these tattoos were for nothing. What shall I do?
CHELSEA M. CAMERON I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON A wise man once found peace in the practice of saying nothing, leaving the gossiper with no other ch...
HERBERT MAURICE BRUNNER We're saying, like a lot of communities do, that here's a value to these jobs. It's a wise investmen...
BOB WHEELER I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
AGATHA CHRISTIE My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS he decided to appeal to the fairies for enlightenment. They are reputed
to know a good deal.
J.M. BARRIE I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, some...
IAN MCKELLEN Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just...
BILL BRYSON Well, the thing that I suppose is closest to my heart is Shakespeare. I really am a nerd about Shake...
TOM HIDDLESTON In the works of JOSEPH DEVLIN I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS I only know that I know nothing
SOCRATES I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did...
KENNETH LAY A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work...
GEOFFREY NORMAN For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is ...
PLATO When you are in doubt what to do, it is wise to do nothing.
VIKRANT PARSAI Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For me, I like to work, you know what I'm saying? Being off a whole week ... there was nothing to do...
LEON SMITH I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not...
CHUCK BERRY To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think t...
SOCRATES Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
SOCRATES The wise speak only of what they know.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The wise speak only of what they know
J.R.R. TOLKIEN When you do Shakespeare they think you must be intelligent because they think you understand what yo...
HELEN MIRREN I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by...
CHARLES C. FINN To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think t...
SOCRATES To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;)
Is the only method that I know,
To make men happy...
THOMAS CREECH I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, bec...
HAROLD BLOOM You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW Given the financial market's incredibly high expectations, all of these guys are probably saying, 'I...
JAMES ANGEL Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters s...
EDWARD DAHLBERG In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER I know only that it is time for me to be something when I am nothing.
PATRICK BRANWELL BRONTë I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.
DAVID HEWSON I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.
MITCH HEDBERG Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare...
WILLIAM COLLINS That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. I...
CHARLES DICKENS Butler: Do you think I look deaf?
William: Whadda I know. You look like you could be anything.
RICHMAL CROMPTON The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.
SOCRATES Wise people understand the need to consult experts; only fools are confident they know everything.
KEN POIROT The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP Somebody could read about Shakespeare and get honors credit, but those kids who not only have to rea...
BRIAN ARMSTRONG I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those t...
VICKY MCCLURE Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakesp...
WILLIAM COLLINS I found out that superstars Winkler and William Shatner are real people, and I was so thankful for t...
TERRY BRADSHAW (The students) were all saying the same things. You just don't know what kids will do these days.
GINA MILLER Children are very wise
intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.
V.C. ANDREWS You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's p...
MAURICE SENDAK Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all...
SUZY KASSEM Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only kn...
JUDITH VIORST I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of l...
DEE HOCK I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.
MITCH HEDBERG Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white...
MAYA ANGELOU The employees of Boeing are wise, and they are intelligent, and they are thoughtful, and they know w...
ALAN MULALLY I am not going to apologize for saying that society is complicit in these fires. The ones that shoul...
CRISTINA NARBONA I am not going to apologize for saying that society is complicit in these fires, ... The ones that s...
CRISTINA NARBONA We've given them a resolution, ... The only way I can understand it is that they are saying to Spiri...
CHARLES KUPCHELLA We have heard a lot of rumors, but no one has told us anything. I only know what people are saying, ...
MARIA MARTINEZ These are things coming from reporters who have not only covered many, many other hurricanes, they'v...
ROBERT SIEGEL Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA We can only hope that we are wise in time
CAROLINE C Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sou...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We ca...
KATHRYN LASKY For you are goddesses, inside on everything, know everything. But we mortals hear only the news, and...
HOMER A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undr...
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO Inexpressible Love:To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am goi...
ROLAND BARTHES The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can unders...
PAULO COELHO When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These ...
DREW BARRYMORE 'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about s...
JON CROSBY