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Men should be what they seem;Or those that be not, would they might seem none!


William Shakespeare

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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Men should be what they seem.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior
MARILYN FRENCH People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.
MARTHA PLIMPTON There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there ar...
NEIL GAIMAN In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Thing...
HUBERT HUMPHREY In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Thing...
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to ...
LEWIS CARROLL Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not t...
LEWIS CARROLL People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not
GIACOMO LEOPARDI They seem to be steadfast, ... We might have to wait until May.
MICHAEL LEWIS Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they ag...
"We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Look! Don't be deceived by appearances -- men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on ...
WILLIAM BOOTH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD It would seem like an odd outcome to me. It would be more likely they'd let all of them go forward o...
BEN WIZNER But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.
ALBERT CAMUS Who cares what THEY think, what do YOU think? You can't control others' perception of you, so just b...
DAN O'DONNELL Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not ...
WILLIAM BOOTH What you would seem to be, be really.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It's embarrassing and it does highlight the fact that there seem to be some real operational risk is...
BRIAN JOHNSON They all seem to be pretty well satisfied. That was the encouraging thing. We had no idea. They seem...
BRENT HAYES The times are not so bad as they seem; they couldn't be
JAY FRANKLIN I've noticed that one or two have had systems problems -- the conversions have not always been corre...
CHRIS WOOD No matter what the stores do, they still seem to not be able to stimulate spending.
BURT FLICKINGER Names are not always what they seem.
MARK TWAIN Employers seem to be prospering, businesses seem to be doing well, but they're not hiring as many ad...
DAVID PENN Genius or jock, it didn't seem to matter. Boys were born with a gene that kept girls, no matter how ...
CHARITY TAHMASEB Thus far the girls seem to be getting along. They do seem to be more focused.
LYNDA YOTTER The songs seem like they are continuing to evolve, they seem like they're continuing to be written.
GRAHAM COLTON I worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian)
SHERRILYN KENYON Please remember: things are not what they seem.
HARUKI MURAKAMI If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might also seem to be made for the use and benefit ...
JOHN TILLOTSON There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who k...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.
MARGARET KEANE But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.
ANNE FRANK It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not fi...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE In other news, a recent report suggests that things may not be as they seem.
JOSEPH FINK To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good and bad men are less than they seem.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.
GEORGE HERBERT Men in all ways are better than they seem
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Being confused about you're own insecurity's, when other people turn out to be not what they seem, a...
KATE What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good charac...
MICHAEL CONNELLY There doesn't seem to be any awareness that it might be a calamity.
HESHAM KASSEM I don't see that kind of political strength coming from the religious left - because they don't seem...
JOSEPH LOCONTE The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they a...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they a...
W. R. INGE If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men ...
LORD HALIFAX The attacks of September 11 persuaded many Americans that what might seem to be obscure or distant p...
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
BRUCE BERESFORD Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to t...
BRUCE BAWER There seem to be a lot of gay people there...Oh please, as if that's what I meant by that. Trust me,...
JUSTIN HALPERN They are not very agile fliers, and they don't seem to be very skilled at avoiding predators.
LOUIE YANG They are not very agile fliers, and they don't seem to be very skilled at avoiding predators,
LOUIE YANG I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN Be extra kind to those who seem to deserve it least because they really need your kindness more.
LORRIN L. LEE Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be ...
GEORGE DENNISON PRENTICE In essence, they seem to be faulting us for not coming up with the information one would get by doin...
DEBORAH MURRAY Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don...
BILL BRYSON In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they ...
THEODOR REIK They seem to be doing much better today, but they're not calling it contained.
ANNA PAYNE When you're sitting up there watching those games and they (may) seem like they're not close, but wh...
JAY WELK Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see.
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ARUNDHATI ROY Human beings seem too caught up making excuses for their selfish tendencies rather than trying to im...
GARY M To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD They seem to be aiding and abetting the terrorists.
BILL BRAY They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.
CLEO MOORE It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
AMELIA BARR If they suddenly leave like that they don't seem to be very interested in taking part.
HEINZ JUNGWIRTH Things are seldom what they seem.
W. S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT James and Dee didn't seem to be too carried away or too emotional out there. They were just business...
ROY WILLIAMS Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they ...
DAWN POWELL What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded,...
CAITLIN MORAN There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be disco...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Taxes don't seem to be the third rail they used to be.
HARRY WILSON Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. [Lat., Graviora quae pat...
TITUS LIVY That doesn't seem like what people would expect their Measure C monies to be used for,
JEFF REID They bloom early. They seem to be blooming at a very young age.
BOYD MOFFETT There doesn't seem to be a limit for what people might spend for this kind of entertainment.
DON WALSH Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at a...
MICHAEL MORPURGO I guess what I like the least about this is would be that there doesn't seem to be too much interest...
JULIA ROBERTS They don't seem to be able to make money there.
TOM LIBBY are the ones that seem to be doing those violent acts.
AHMED NAZIF One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing S...
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HERB ASHER To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN I think so. They seem to have their heads wither they need to be.
LARRY HARVEY Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or ...
MARGARET ATWOOD The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals
CYRIL CONNOLLY What is encouraging to us is a lot of people seem to recognize that if they don't support the 'mom a...
LANA STANLEY Tucker might be out for another week. It doesn't really seem to be improving.
AL WESTOVER Common sense would seem to be extinct.
THOMAS MC DONALD The sentiment that they (the two governments) seem to be bogged down is because of the distance that...
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And t...
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Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
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The appetite ...
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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.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
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When his fair angels would salute by palm,
But for...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Merchant Of Venice
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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.
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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.
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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.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
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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.
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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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