Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP 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 Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS 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 The reply I got was 100 percent positive. I was told that if you've got her, you'd be a fool not to ...
LOUIS NICOLOSI 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 heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ...
IF I WAKE Jest not with the eye or with Religion.
GEORGE HERBERT Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second...
LORD HALIFAX 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 I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO If a man is born, he should be born either a king or a fool.
VIKRANT PARSAI Oh, laugh or mourn with me the rueful jest, / A cassocked huntsman and a fiddling priest!
WILLIAM COWPER Mr. Chrétien did not reply in any way to the memorandum,
JOHN GOMERY I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was...
PETER HENRY ABRAHAMS He who is born a fool is never cured
PROVERB Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.
THOMAS FULLER I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
DANNY KAYE 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 The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest
RALPH WALDO EMERSON In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
STEPHEN COVEY 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 wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
DANNY KAYE I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL Jest not in earnest.
MOTTO Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all
The other feigned to be.
The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
LAWRENCE WELK By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER But without William K, I would have forgotten that I had not been born on this journey. That I had l...
DAVE EGGERS Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil...
WILLEM DAFOE I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If they fool me once, it's first time. If they fool me again, I am learning. If they fool me third t...
LILY CHATTERJEE Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
STEPHEN R. COVEY O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me
WALTER RALEIGH SR. what ho, apothecary!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,
And...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VII...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
BEBE NEUWIRTH "Fool me once; fool me twice; but shame on me if you fool me thrice." - Nabil N. Jamal
NABIL N. JAMAL I was born in 1943 at Neston in the Wirral, not far from Liverpool where my father, Richard William ...
TIM HUNT To me, my life is not courage. I was born with this. It's just everyday life for me.
JOSH LENTIN ...fool me once, shame on me…fool me twice…I deserved to get fucked over.
DEREKICA SNAKE Let me not be found overly optimistic and known a fool or endued with pure pessimism, a jaded mess o...
JON CHRISTOPHER GARLAND Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provid...
ALLAN BLOOM Reject the religious labels and accept the only label that matters “Born Again
JOHN M SHEEHAN I liked Shakespeare in high school, but in university I spent a semester studying in London, and it ...
ALEXI ZENTNER I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.
“Love does not make you a fool.”
“He ...
MITCH ALBOM To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
MARIE DE FRANCE Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
RANDALL TERRY Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
ENGLISH PROVERB Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
UNKNOWN Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This is a 'fool me once' kind of situation. We're not going to be fooled again.
ALEX GLASS Love not that will not reply.
RICARDO ALONSO Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the hi...
STEVEN PINKER You fooling me is not what hurts me the most; you taking me for a fool is what does.
KEVIN I.E2 GBOBOH All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
PAUL SIMON Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
JOHN GAY Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it
SAMUEL JOHNSON Jests that give pains are no jests
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people ...
EMMA BUNTON Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level ...
PAMELA HANSFORD JOHNSON Better lose a jest than a friend
THOMAS FULLER Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
JAVAN Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest
SAMUEL JOHNSON And when he comes to know of any of Our communications, he takes it for a jest; these it is that sha...
QURAN Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles,...
JOHN MILTON The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER You have my heart, Jest. I don't know if you deserve it or not. I can't tell if you're a hero or a v...
MARISSA MEYER