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William Shakespeare

  • The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life... William Shakespeare {view}
  • The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man... William Shakespeare {view}
  • By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • O excellent! I love long life better than figs.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature... William Shakespeare {view}
  • O sir to willful men - The injuries that they themselves procure, Must be their schoolmasters... William Shakespeare {view}
  • What he hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Ever till nowWhen men were fond, I smiled and wondered how.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,And men have lost their reason.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • For stony limits cannot hold love out.And what love can do that dares love attempt.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, For I never saw true beauty till this night... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;Corruption wins not more than honesty.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers eyes, being vexed a sea nourished with lovers tears, What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a perserving sweet.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief n... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages What feats he did that day... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Love give me strength, and strength will help me through. Goodbye, dear father.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; When little fears grow great, great love grows there.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Our foster-nurse of nature is repose... William Shakespeare {view}
  • How quickly nature falls into revoltWhen gold becomes her object!... William Shakespeare {view}
  • For where is any author in the world, Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Learning is but an adjunct to ourself... William Shakespeare {view}
  • To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • If angels fight,Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses... William Shakespeare {view}
  • If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven... William Shakespeare {view}
  • There was a star danced, and under that was I born.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries... William Shakespeare {view}
  • He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man... William Shakespeare {view}
  • The pleasing punishment that women bear.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause; there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Were kisses all the joys in bed,One woman would another wed.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though know she lies... William Shakespeare {view}
  • We are advertised by our loving friends... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Do all men kill the things they do not love?... William Shakespeare {view}
  • The love of heaven makes one heavenly.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority, like an angry ape, play such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep... William Shakespeare {view}
  • He is evil by his very nature.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • That is my home of love: if I have rang'd, Like him that travels, I return again... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Do you not educate youth at the charge-house on the top of the mountain?... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • If music be the food of love, play on.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Save in the office and affairs of love.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and takes the winds of March with beauty.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost... William Shakespeare {view}
  • In nature there is no blemish but the mind: none can be called deformed but the unkind... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • If you love her, you cannot see her . . . because love is blind.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Beauty itself doth of itself persuade, The eyes of men without an orator.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Hasty marriage seldom proveth well... William Shakespeare {view}
  • They do not love that do not show their love.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • O powerful love,that in some respects makes a beast a man,in some other, a man a beast.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Take heed, be wary how you place your words;Talk like the vulgar sort of market menThat come to gather money for their corn.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Some true love turned and not a false turned true.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • O, hell! to choose love by another's eyes.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards... William Shakespeare {view}
  • We cannot fight for love as men may do; We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Things base and vile, holding no quantity,Love can transpose to form and dignity.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won... William Shakespeare {view}
  • All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • The course of true love never did run smooth.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;... William Shakespeare {view}
  • How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musicCreep in our ears; soft stillness, and the nightBecome the touches of sweet harmony.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous... William Shakespeare {view}
  • What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Men's judgments areA parcel of their fortunes; and things outwardDo draw the inward quality after them,To suffer all alike.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty; How love makes young men thrall and old men dote; How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty: Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Men should be what they seem;Or those that be not, would they might seem none!... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.... William Shakespeare {view}
  • Heigh ho! sing, heigh ho! unto the green holly:Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:Then heigh ho, the holly!This life is most jolly.... William Shakespeare {view}