Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
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Related These earthly godfathers of heaven's light,
That give a name to every fixed star,
Have no more... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more prof... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,
That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks:
Smal... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,/ That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks;/ Small ha... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That unlettered small-knowing soul. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v.... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE By my penny of observation. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A high hope for a low heaven. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A very beadle to a humorous sigh. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. -Love's La... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Priscian! a little scratched, 't will serve. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. -Love's Labour 's... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. -Love's Lab... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The boy hath sold him a bargain,—a goose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth. -Love's Labour ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. -Love's Lab... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! -Love's Labour 's Lost. A... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon. -Love's Labour 's Lost.... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have had my labour for my travail. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They have measured many a mile To tread a measure with you on this grass. -Love's Labour 's Lost. A... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A buck of the first head. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You two are book-men. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The rational hind Costard. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dictynna, goodman Dull. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every year, more than 1 million children are left motherless and vulnerable because of maternal deat... CHRISTY TURLINGTON These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. -The Taming ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It adds a precious seeing to the eye. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearing... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let me take you a button-hole lower. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hat... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it. -All 's Well that... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Base is the slave that pays. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but I think now 't is not to be fo... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had a rant and lost it a bit but lost it for the team not for myself. These players have given eve... ROY MCFARLAND Reasons... questions... what they have in common? - All get finded in the hard way. DEYTH BANGER My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal! -Much Ado about Nothing. A... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. -Much Ado ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The gentleman is not in your books. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won... ORSON WELLES Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams... OG MANDINO There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk wit... BROTHER LAWRENCE What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Deeper than did ever plummet sound I 'll drown my book. -The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. -The Comedy of Errors. Act iii. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Their record does not indicate what kind of team they are, ... There are several games that I have s... CHRIS HENDERSON In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... CRAIG GROESCHEL It's no coincidence that every person have more than 1 soulmates. METTRIE L. The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for t... NICK CAVE Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. Wha... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord of thy presence and no land beside. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. -King Henry IV. P... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them,—but not for love. -As You Like It. Ac... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?... DEYTH BANGER There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have... FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE These are they who have lost their souls, and what they forged is gone from them. QURAN There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, ... GORDON B. HINCKLEY Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hea... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care. -The Merchant... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Many surround themselves with luminaries, but in so doing they dull their own sparkle. If you want t... STEPHEN RICHARDS I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Chri... WILLIAM WILBERFORCE In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyri... MANDY PATINKIN For ever and a day. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so ter... AUDRE LORDE I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and... CLARENCE LINDER I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because... SETH GRAHAME-SMITH These blessed candles of the night. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The lights that twinkle in the nights sky are worth more than any diamond STARGAZER For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. BIBLE There 's a skirmish of wit between them. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you... RALPH BROWN ACT! has a loyal and discerning base of more than 2.5 million registered users and over 30,000 corpo... JOE BERGERA And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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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... 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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.
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 Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest. 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