Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
William Shakespeare
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Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ri...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Mark it, nuncle.
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
HORACE Proclaim not all thou knowest
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than th...
BIBLE Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 Thou knowest well how to excuse and col...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou a...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
SIR JACOB ASTLEY Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe
Where every book is thy epitaph.
HENRY VAUGHAN ("THE SILURIST") "What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my he...
JOHN NEWTON And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony?
What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more
Of morta...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child
Than t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?
CHARLES LAMB Child of a day, thou knowest not / The tears that overflow thy urn.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Knowing what
Thou knowest not
Is in a sense
Omniscience.
PIET HEIN If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art...
ANSARI Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of
a fool than of him.
BIBLE Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? / Jesus answe...
BIBLE Knowest thou not that kings have long hands?
[Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee
Came not all hell broke loose? Is pain to them
L...
JOHN MILTON Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day
may bring forth.
BIBLE Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
BIBLE [It] is well and good when our convictions are based upon the “Thou shalts” and the “Thou shal...
BILLY GRAHAM Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin
than Dobbin my thill-horse has on ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him (Proverbs 26:12).
BIBLE My fond affection thou hast seen,
Then judge of my regret
To think more happy thou hadst been
...
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Dear God, where art thou? more or less importantly, whom.
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Better is it that thou shouldst not vow, than that thou shouldst vow and not pay.
BIBLE If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other...
RICHARD BAXTER But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose? Is pain to themLess pain...
JOHN MILTON If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if I mention love's devot...
THOMAS MORE Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought. And I fear that the politics of protest is ...
SPIRO T. AGNEW If thou desirest to be safe, turn at once in thy emptiness to God. If thou hast been inconsistent, h...
JOHANNES TAULER All is not Gospel that thou doest speak
PROVERB The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel.
COMPTON GAGE Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which tho...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine ow...
ABU SA'ID To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to ev...
BIBLE When once thy foot enters the church, be bare.
God is more there than thou: for thou art there
...
GEORGE HERBERT For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest ...
BIBLE Man is the miracle in nature. God
Is the One Miracle to man. Behold,
"There is a God," thou ...
JEAN INGELOW Thou beginnest better than thou endest.
The last is inferior to the first.
[Lat., Coepisti mel...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live...
EDWARD YOUNG Dear love, for nothing less than thee / Would I have broke this happy dream, / It was a theme / For ...
JOHN DONNE Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
BIBLE Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
HOMER Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
GEORGE HERBERT Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
THOMAS HOLCROFT Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a...
BIBLE Yet how much less it were to gain,
Though thou hast left me free,
The loveliest things that st...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better
than these? for thou dost not inq...
BIBLE Thou art sore troubled in mind for the people in the world’s sake: loves thou that people better t...
COMPTON GAGE Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say...
BIBLE Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality
GRACE KELLY Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 Incarnate Word! Thou Word of God alone! ...
THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou
shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:...
BIBLE Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent,
All are needed by ea...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Oh Diamond! Diamond! Thou little knowest the mischief done! (Said to a pet dog who knocked over a ca...
ISAAC NEWTON Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false ...
BIBLE William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY Rome, Rome, thou art no more
As thou hast been!
On thy seven hills of yore
Thou sat'st a...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land,
Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;
And thou, too ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore cho...
BAYAZID AL-BISTAMI And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.
BEN JONSON Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be wit...
BIBLE Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
W...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false ...
BIBLE Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?...
BIBLE Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
BIBLE I am not holier than you, you are not holier than me. Any one who thinks he is holier than the rest ...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps tho...
CONFUCIUS When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that w...
JACOB BOEHME The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel; for the world hast fast to pass away-
COMPTON GAGE If thou dost slander her and torture me,
Never pray more; abandon all remorse;
On horror's hea...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON Cytherea,
How bravely thou becom'st thy bed, fresh lily,
And whiter than the sheets!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Art thou like me, child of my darkest heart? And dost thou think my untamed thoughts and speak my va...
KAHLIL GIBRAN If thou shouldst never see my face again, pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than t...
ALFRED TENNYSON If thou shouldst never see my face again, pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than t...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel
than the man. But art not thou t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst n...
BIBLE Thou seest, thou wicked varlet, now, what’s come upon thee: thou art to continue, now, thou varlet...
LORNA SAGE Thou hast fair forms that move
With queenly tread;
Thou hast proud fanes above
Thy might...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine, and be not diffident
Of wisdom, ...
JOHN MILTON Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our little systems have their day;
They have their day and cease to be…
And thou, O Lord...
ALFRED TENNYSON Well didst thou speak, Athena's wisest son!/ All that we know is, nothing can be known.
LORD BYRON Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile...
BIBLE And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass ove...
BIBLE There is thy gold--worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
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,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy...
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.
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.
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 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.
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 We were not born to sue, but to command.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE