A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish, How pleasant to know Mr
EDWARD LEAR "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Give me but one hour of Scotland,
Let me see it ere I die.
- William Edmondstoune Aytoun,
WILLIAM EDMONDSTOUNE AYTOUN O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.
RICHARD LLEWELLYN William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS 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 At the end of the day, I'm a man.
DANIEL CORMIER I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE The midge's wing beats to and fro
A thousand times ere one can utter "O."
COVENTRY PATMORE Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white...
MAYA ANGELOU This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent...
IAN MCEWAN The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England'...
WILLIAM BLAKE 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 Off, end this lies it's not awesome. Please take this crap, second very clever and smart, but I want...
DEYTH BANGER The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, t...
CHARLES DICKENS 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 William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ...
OSHO All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
SAMUEL BUTLER 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 You come out those first couple of days (of conditioning drills) and people want to know how everybo...
JAY RICHARDSON Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So s...
FISHER STEVENS O Nanak, in the end, all this vanishes like a dream!
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB O God! methinks it were a happy life
To be no better than a homely swain;
To sit upon a hill,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In this situation we've got with suppliers, it's unfortunately a part of doing business these days. ...
DAN SIEGER That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it;
This high man, with a great thin...
ROBERT BROWNING There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, th...
IAN HART [I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
SAMUEL BUTLER I know the media end of things and not much about the business end. Leslie knows the business end bu...
JENNIFER ANTKOWIAK O don't know when you'll be ready for me. It might be next month or next year. Whenever it is, just ...
COLLEEN HOOVER Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET If Pugh leaves his company, there might be a chance of the company doing business with the county af...
GARY WHITE Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, ...
GENA SHOWALTER They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING At the end of the day, you know yourself best.
ABIGAIL JOHNSON It was a dark period of my life when William Hung was the most famous Asian man.
ALAN YANG A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Brief as the lightning in the collied night;
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth,<...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou...
BIBLE What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall...
FRANCES ANNE "FANNY" KEMBLE (MRS. BUTLER) A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times b...
G.K. CHESTERTON The swallow is come!
The swallow is come!
O, fair are the seasons, and light
Are the day...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A thief stops stealing when he dies
SOTONYE ANGA A garden path,' write the landscape architects Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, and William Tu...
REBECCA SOLNIT The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Seven Ages: first puking and mewling
Then very pissed-off with your schooling
Then fucks, ...
ROBERT CONQUEST Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN It’s a bad case o’ the thinkin’ he’s caught, missus. When a man starts messin’ wi’ the r...
TERRY PRATCHETT What is that way, by which the Lord's Praises might be sung? What is that intellect, by which this p...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF O hell! to choose love by another's eyes!" "Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I ...
BIBLE Do you know where he got the idea? ... From a William Saroyan play, 'The Time of Your Life,' that he...
MIKE VEECK Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
ALEXANDER POPE Wrongly chosen, wrongly slain, A hero Valhalla cannot contain. Nine days hence the sun must go east,...
RICK RIORDAN For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek it, ere it come to light,...
WILLIAM COWPER O Death! O Change! O Time!
Without you, O! the insufferable eyes
Of these poor Might-Have-B...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick pray...
KATE CHOPIN There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work...
IAN HART Even God doesn't plan to judge a man till the end of his days, why should you and I?
SOURCE UNKNOWN You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't...
E. ST. ELMO LEWIS You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't...
GERALD BRENAN Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER It's time to send a message to these three that their days of making money on the pain, desperation ...
DANIEL RODRIGUEZ The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
BIBLE 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 You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day.
AUBREY O'DAY We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; no...
ROBERT WILENSKY I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might
Become your time of day, and yours, and yours,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began,
Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.
THOMAS CAMPBELL Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time,
Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal;
Ay...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST