A paltry, humbug jest; those who have the least wit make them best
William Combe
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We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who m...
SAMUEL BUTLER Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Those who know the least obey the best.
GEORGE FARQUHAR As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers.
PLATO Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Lesse at th...
GEORGE HERBERT His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.
DENIS DIDEROT 'Tis an old lesson; time approves it true,
And those who know it best, deplore it most;
When a...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) If you are out there, you have fans. You have a champion. Organize these champions. You probably kno...
JAMISON STAFFORD taking the most from those who have the least and nothing from those who have the most.
CHET EDWARDS Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the...
HELEN ROWLAND Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the ...
HELEN ROWLAND Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them
EDGAR ALLAN POE Those who never have time do least
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
AVICENNA When thou dost tell another's jest, therein
Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;
Pick o...
GEORGE HERBERT For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
LUTHER BURBANK Sometimes in life you have to make difficult choices. The best time to make those choices is before ...
PERRY MORRIS Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the leas...
ARISTOTLE Those who have loved God most, have loved man least
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL If you are going to give a party, you will have to check to make sure those who drink alcohol are at...
BOB JENNINGS He's one of those guys who does it when you've got to have it. Against William Carey a couple weeks ...
HILL DENSON Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.
JACK BUCK He makes a Foe who makes a jest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He made us feel we were present at a feast of wit, fed by his good sense, and thrilled to be, for th...
BEVERLY FRANKEL FIELDS George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in bet...
WESLEY CLARK It is easier to write on money than to obtain it, and those who gain it, jest much at those who only...
VOLTAIRE God’s gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.
PHILIP YANCEY An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
PLATO Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is righ...
DAVID BERGEN People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work...
EUGENE DEBS Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work...
EUGENE V. DEBS Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery ...
ARISTOTLE Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery ...
ARISTOTLE The best friends you will ever have are the ones who don't make you feel like you owe them a damn th...
COREY TAYLOR The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest ...
THOMAS HUXLEY For those people who are not up to the task physically, this at least gives them another option.
SEN. JOYCE MULLIKEN Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
ALVIN TOFFLER Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.
RICHARD ENGEL There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The best friends you will ever have are the ones who do not make you feel like you owe them a damn t...
COREY TAYLOR Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those w...
GEORGE SAVILE Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those w...
GEORGE SAVILE It puts a small-business owner in a difficult position, particularly those who can least afford it. ...
ELLEN VALENTINO Those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.
J.K. ROWLING Although there was no enemy or danger to be perceived, they felt the apprehension and doubt of those...
RICHARD ADAMS The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
GEORGE ELIOT The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those sta...
ARISTOTLE The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
SOURCE UNKNOWN So that the jest is clearly to be seen,
Not in the words--but in the gap between;
Manner is al...
WILLIAM COWPER A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express hers...
ARI MARMELL I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.
WILLIAM HOGARTH I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who...
OLIVIER MESSIAEN It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have neve...
J.K. ROWLING Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace woul...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I think it's almost guaranteed that those who stay will be those with the least economic opportunity...
BARTON SMITH Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of u...
CATHY MCMORRIS Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of u...
CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best ser...
LEE BRISTOL I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best ser...
RICHARD BACH The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
EURIPIDES When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Great things come to those who wait… best
things come to those who get off their ass and
do anythi...
GUNDO MULAUDZI Bad friends are those who make you cry.
Good friends are those who understand why you're crying...
ASI WUDU Good things come to those who believe,better things come to those who have patience & the best thing...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
JAVAN [Watson] is the horse who has been carrying their cart, ... And we're going to have to put our best ...
JAY JOHNSON My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no ...
OLIVIER MESSIAEN Falling hurts least those who fly low
CHINESE PROVERBS Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
WILLIAM LLOYD Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
ROBERT LLOYD I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.
PAUL OAKENFOLD It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have neve...
J.K. ROWLING We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour th...
GEORGE W. BUSH Or is it that you ask them a recompense? But the recompense of your Lord is best, and He is the best...
QURAN Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most d...
OVERLUNG [The bill] takes food from families struggling to make ends meet and puts more money in the pockets ...
DAVID BECKMANN Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really ...
CHANDLER CANTERBURY I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Bah," said Scrooge, "Humbug.
CHARLES DICKENS Bah,' said Scrooge. "Humbug!"
CHARLES DICKENS Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score...
LORD CHESTERFIELD (Andrew:) I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But
what's your jest?
(Maria:) A dr...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I wouldn’t put it past you,” Kaldar said. “Or him. Who knows what the hell he might do?”
ILONA ANDREWS Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nat...
BERNARD MELTZER Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least.
HENRY DOHERTY Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least
HENRY DOHERTY Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?
EDWINA CURRIE This is all humbug. There is just no deal,
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF Whom we love best, to them we can say least
ENGLISH PROVERB We hope the high reward money will entice those people who have been assisting them in traveling and...
LARRY TODD
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Where'er his fancy bids him roam,
In ev'ry Inn he finds a home--
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Will not an Inn...
WILLIAM COMBE (COOMBE) Along the varying road of life,
In calm content, in toil or strife,
At morn or noon, by night ...
WILLIAM COMBE (COOMBE) They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; bu...
GEORGE COMBE I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold,...
GEORGE COMBE The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyme...
GEORGE COMBE The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refres...
GEORGE COMBE Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too...
GEORGE COMBE What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them
ANDREW COMBE The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. M...
GEORGE COMBE I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, a...
GEORGE COMBE He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against ou...
GEORGE COMBE It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can te...
PERE LA COMBE Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
WILLIAM GIBSON We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec...
WILLIAM SAFIRE You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS '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 It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE 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 All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like...
WILLIAM BARCLAY When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in t...
WILLIAM BARCLAY In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
WILLIAM BARCLAY We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY 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 I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
WILLIAM OSLER Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER 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 There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
WILLIAM GODWIN Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most...
WILLIAM GODWIN 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 We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary...
WILLIAM MORRIS The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t...
WILLIAM PENN To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we ...
WILLIAM PENN Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND 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 No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
WILLIAM CONGREVE To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pe...
WILLIAM CONGREVE If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me...
WILLIAM CONGREVE They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient cus...
WILLIAM CONGREVE You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my facu...
WILLIAM CONGREVE She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
WILLIAM CONGREVE I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
WILLIAM CONGREVE He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi...
WILLIAM CONGREVE If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
WILLIAM CONGREVE A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the disc...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Faith is a passionate intuition.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its ro...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To begin, begin.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true th...
WILLIAM FINNEGAN Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES 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 What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDING The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
WILLIAM SCRANTON The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you...
PRINCE WILLIAM What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy...
WILLIAM MOUGAYAR Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, w...
WILLIAM GOLDING Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man...
WILLIAM GODWIN Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.
WILLIAM O'NEILL President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave t...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfo...
WILLIAM WYLER Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images t...
WILLIAM LAUD The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
WILLIAM BLIGH 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 ... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mou...
WILLIAM FAULKNER When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circul...
WILLIAM ZINSSER Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
WILLIAM ZINSSER 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 Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with t...
WILLIAM PENN For we put the power in the people.
WILLIAM PENN They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
WILLIAM PENN I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any singl...
WILLIAM PITT 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