All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES All the worlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ent... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world 's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits a... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I much prefer being a man. Women have to spend so much time pulling themselves together, and their s... LYNNE CARTER We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent - see,... ANDREA DWORKIN A man is not where he lives, but where he loves LATIN PROVERB Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy. LAUREN BACALL The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist, Jack. HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN You must create your own world. I'm responsible for my world. LOUISE NEVELSON No one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does GENE STRATTON-PORTER Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely... DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p... DEBORAH KERR The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You [Maria Shriver] are so wonderful. You are so beautiful. I have wanted to meet you for the longes... BEN AFFLECK To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,... IAN DOESCHER Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. NANCY WITCHER ASTOR, VISCOUNTESS Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. NANCY WITCHER ASTOR VISCOUNTESS Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't wom... ANNE FRANK Except for the American woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than an automobile... ALFRED HAMILTON BARR There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's... TERRI WINDLING A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously. DAVID MITCHELL Mr Reichman was brilliant and very good at what he did, but he was still a man, and men rarely knew ... CHARLOTTE ROGAN The world I live in is not all white people, not all straight people, and it's not all people wh... CATHERINE RYAN HYDE Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are b... ERICA JONG We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kis... CHER A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference. LOUISE NEVELSON No man thinks clearly when his fists are clenched GEORGE JEAN NATHAN Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat SAMUEL BUTLER Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she ... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men ... SHIRLEY BASSEY A man -- I let the truth out -- Who's had almost every tooth out, Cannot sing as once he san... WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Behind every great man there is a surprised woman. MARYON PEARSON All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his. OSCAR WILDE When women agree with me I always do the other thing CHARLES BUKOWSKI I suppose the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy. Of course playright Bob Anderso... DEBORAH KERR She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was... J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN Sketches have characters, exits, entrances and are vastly different. DAVID CROSS What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them EVELYN WAUGH Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. JACKIE MASON Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other ... BAUDELAIRE I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose ... MARIE CORELLI I married beneath me. All women do. CHER For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatur... COTY PERFUME AD There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literatu... STEPHEN STILLS Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. ANONYMOUS Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! HONORE DE BALZAC My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with ... LENNY BRUCE Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. [1 Thessalonians 4:11]. BIBLE If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. CHEKHOV Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can be... ANONYMOUS In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. JOHNNY CARSON Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. ANONYMOUS Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. ANONYMOUS Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what y... ANONYMOUS Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... ANONYMOUS Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. ANONYMOUS It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. ANONYMOUS He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. ANONYMOUS All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. ANONYMOUS A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do yo... ANONYMOUS A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. ANONYMOUS Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. ANONYMOUS Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...b... ANONYMOUS Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her o... ANONYMOUS Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family d... ANONYMOUS In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles sugg... ROBERT BRIFFAULT Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother... ENGLISH PROVERB An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is ... HONORE DE BALZAC If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. LENNY BRUCE Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. LIN Yü-TANG I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. LADY NANCY ASTOR Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. S. T. COLERIDGE Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualiti... JOAN BAEZ Women like silent men. They think they're listening. MARCEL ARCHARD My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses..
wait.. ! I am receiving a correction ... JOHN C LEHMAN Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. JIM BACKUS She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. EDMUND BURKE If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing... MARY FRANCES BERRY Woman was God's second mistake. ARISTOTLE ONASSIS No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in lo... ROGERS The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. IRWIN COREY It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. BASKINS I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to m... DAVID BISSONETTE The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. HENRY BROOKS ADAMS On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women. H. L. MENCKEN A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Bless... LADY MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
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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.
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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