Watch out he's winding the watch of his wit, by and by it will strike.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.
Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.
WM 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 The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up,
BRENDA JONES I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
AMBROSE BIERCE Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
AMBROSE BIERCE To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Most anthologists... of quotations are like those who eat cherries... first picking the best ones an...
CHAMFORT He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON His wit invites you by his looks to come,
But when you knock, it never is at home.
WILLIAM COWPER God is always on time, it may not be the time you are expecting, but hes on time. Just like he said ...
ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters; first picking the best o...
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity --it should strike the reader as a wo...
JOHN KEATS Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wor...
JOHN KEATS Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -it should strike the reader as a wor...
JOHN KEATS 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 William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS One of a parent’s most important tasks is teaching their children how to communicate effectively a...
BY FAMOUS Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
BY ALEFLETCHER Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wordi...
JOHN KEATS I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.
TAMER HASSAN 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 Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit
Of poets triumphs over it.
ABRAHAM COWLEY William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN All rising to great place is by winding stair.
FRANCIS BACON Man's mind is a watch that needs winding daily
WELSH PROVERB The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable...
J.D. SALINGER Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877 To put it shortly, the Chu...
WILLIAM TEMPLE This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given...
SYDNEY SMITH All rising to great place is by a winding stair.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We're all Vanilla Ice. Look at Girl Talk and Danger Mouse. Look at William Burroughs, whose cut-...
DAVID SHIELDS Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Wit must be foiled by wit : cut a diamond with a diamond
WILLIAM CONGREVE Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.
JOHN DRYDEN 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 Many live by their wits but few by their wit
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER Rarely do we create a song just by jamming and coming up with something. That is more of the 'lightn...
JASON KISH Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
RHONDA BYRNE Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
FRANCIS BACON All rising to a great place is by a winding stair
FRANCIS BACON SR. He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hier...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE It's really important that those two [Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights] are both under the s...
OSKAR EUSTIS Friar Laurence:
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is holy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well ...
ARNOLD BENNETT [Northwest] may be able to handle a strike by one group, but there's no way it can handle a strike b...
BOB KRABBE William H. Rehnquist is by nature quiet and humble. His legacy is that he has shown us how to disagr...
DOUGLAS KMIEC The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be...
ANDREW COYLE BRADLEY Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
LOU GERSTNER Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR. I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
SITTING BULL Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appe...
WILLIAM JAMES But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, t...
CESAR ROMERO We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces ar...
TIM CROUCH By the time we've made it, we've had it.
MALCOLM FORBES I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
JOHN LITHGOW How people started to disappear??
It's an interesting question isn't it?
I guess on 89% su...
DEYTH BANGER No one will remember the kick in the balls if hes bleeding everywhere...
NATHAN ELMO MELO Wit, by itself, is of little account. It becomes a moment only when grounded on wisdom.
MARK TWAIN One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession,
another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One of our efforts in doing a lot of Shakespeare is, the more we do it, the more proficient our stud...
JACK CIRILLO The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.
SANDRA BOYNTON Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute th...
FLORENCE KING Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute th...
FLORENCE KING Prince Charles and his son William worked off their Christmas dinner yesterday by trying to blast so...
JOHN MCEACHRAN I am constantly asked by members of the community, by students, by athletes, by chairmen, if we can ...
BETTY HUF Ever feel like everything is just moving to fast,and you just dont know how to keep up
NADIRA AHMED The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person read...
MEM FOX 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 Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877 Nobody seriously believes t...
JOHN CALVIN It's always a great feeling. We've been close a couple of times, and in 1994 were robbed by the stri...
TIM RAINES To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT