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I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad


William Shakespeare

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MARTIN LUTHER The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.
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HUGH PRATHER To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN Thousands of reason are too less to make me sad but a single reason is enough to make me smile.
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RAHEEM ASKIA I know where I've been, and I see where I'm going. Never forget, I walked away after you did. You ca...
LAURA KESSLER I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they ...
PAUL GAUGUIN We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
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LAURA INGALLS WILDER I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.
“Love does not make you a fool.”
“He ...
MITCH ALBOM All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me h...
JOJO MOYES I wish I knew. It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ted left me with no choice but to make this sad decision.
AARON MOKOENA That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My ...
ALEXIS DENISOF It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a fool listen to reason.
TURKISH PROVERB You would no sooner ask me to play Shakespeare away from the Globe than you'd ask some rock star to ...
MARK RYLANCE I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he ha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.
ANGELINA JOLIE For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.
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FLIP MURRAY I grew up in this house. It doesn't make me feel good. It's sad.
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SEAN COMBS I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthda...
PUFF DADDY I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mis...
J.K. ROWLING I don't need a man to make me happy but I sure don't need one who makes me sad. My heart break was h...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT Me, personally, I felt like we had to make a statement.
CEDRIC SIMMONS It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your c...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. -The Merry Wives of Wind...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP People have sacrificed more to make me be happy than I could ever dream of.
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ELIZABETH GILBERT If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.
ANGELINA JOLIE Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?
ORHAN PAMUK Forgive me, I’m being a bit crude and rude about this, but I can’t make the reality prettier tha...
HENDRIK GROEN They told me coming in that I had a very small opportunity to make the team. They gave me the opport...
DAVE BURBA You can make a lot of money doing the right thing
SOTONYE ANGA I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
ADAM GRANT God, make me blind so i can never see her face again...God, make me deaf so i can never hear her voi...
JORDAN PETERS Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own w...
MOHAMMED ALI BAPIR I needed him to touch me, and let me know that he was still my Darkness, still my Doyle. He whispere...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON My vanity suggested I should take offense, but the deeper part of me was relieved- relieved that he ...
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RICHARD SEYMOUR The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience...
GUY WETMORE CARRYL ...fool me once, shame on me…fool me twice…I deserved to get fucked over.
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EVAN HUNTER Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've alway...
MALCOLM X For me it was a very positive experience. It helped me make an easy transition here.
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STEFAN ZWEIG Because you make me want to live. You make me want to grow old with you. You give me hope, and that ...
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JAMES SHAPIRO I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.
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JACOB MAHURIEN Thanks to my mother, people tell me I look younger than I am, especially without make-up. And I supp...
DITA VON TEESE For grief has always been so dear to you that you would make me writhing in pain in the brothel of y...
SANHITA BARUAH You make me smile like the sun, fall out bed, sing like a bird, dizzy in my head. Spin like a record...
UNCLE KRACKER Even when she calls me sometimes, I wish I had something to offer her to make a day go easier, to ma...
AMY WILLIAMS If you stab me in the back than you are a fool. If you want to hurt me than look me in the eyes.
ALLY FAZIO You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is ...
C.S. LEWIS If they fool me once, it's first time. If they fool me again, I am learning. If they fool me third t...
LILY CHATTERJEE We have to make sure that content is easier to buy rather than to pirate.
DON MACDONALD It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS I wanted to make sure I had everything available for a true gaming experience.
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THOMAS BRACKETT REED At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a sing...
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE I've always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just s...
DANIELLA ALONSO I’d rather be a fool than afraid.
A.D. POSEY I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care fo...
ROBERT BURNS In life, I'd much rather have people laughing at me than booing me.
JOSH PECK Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous in...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.
DANIEL CRAIG I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering...
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ELIZABETH GILBERT It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his ...
PAUL BEGALA I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me fee...
TREY PARKER AND MATT STONE I think my teammates make me look a lot better than I am.
TIM TEBOW I've had people swing at me, ... I've had people faint on me. I had one man, he just kept pushing me...
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Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
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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...
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