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New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous, (Nay, let 'em be unmanly), yet are followed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS "We know who we are, but not what we may be." William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN For though men be ignorant, yet they are men
BARUCH SPINOZA Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere.
Try to commit an act of writing
and...
WILLIAM ZINNSER How wild it was, to let it be.
T. S. ELIOT He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO If we could have the ability to change the past and right our wrongs would it make us learn from any...
GARY F EVANS... To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i...
GARY F EVANS... Though Christians be not kept altogether from falling, yet they are kept from falling altogether.
WILLIAM SECKER 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 Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be...
ANDREW COYLE BRADLEY Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they t...
BIBLE They are so unfounded as to be ridiculous. We are not shopping players. We're rebuilding a team here...
JEFFREY LORIA And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
WILL ROGERS Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Know who you are and be who you are insofar as it is deem fit, for there is nothing so contemptuous ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
NICHOLAS SPARKS People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE Let the naysayers nay. They will eventually grow tired of naying.
ELLEN DEGENERES some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through...
VIRGINIA WOOLF "With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the l...
ROBERT BROWNING Let' em learn or let' em die
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You shine the light and you let them come out with their own words and they'll be exposed for what t...
KAREN AROESTY 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 People are always trying to [mess] up other people's live's by telling lies about 'em. You wanna rea...
BRIAN BUCKNER I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has...
COLLEY CIBBER 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 Home is home, though it be never so homely.
JOHN CLARKE He hath never failed thee yet.
Never will His love forget.
O fret not thyself nor let
AMY CARMICHAEL Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD Little seedlings never flourish in the soil they have been given, be it ever so excellent, if they a...
BERTHA DAMON Work 'em hard, play 'em hard, feed 'em up to the nines and send 'em to bed so tired that they are as...
FRANK L. BOYDEN Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not
GIACOMO LEOPARDI Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculou...
JANE AUSTEN "Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"[Ethan Allen, to his physicia...
ETHAN ALLEN "Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physici...
ETHAN ALLEN Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.
WILLIAM GADDIS Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message An host of...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news: give to a gracious message an host of tongu...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Stop saying drug use makes people lazy. Jimi Hendrix did a lot of drugs, even though he's been dead ...
BILL MAHER "Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"
[Ethan Allen, to his phy...
ETHAN ALLEN Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, chi...
GEORGE ELIOT When the broken hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be.
CHRISTOPHER CHASE Though foreign loans are indispensable for the emancipation of the rising capitalist states, they ar...
ROSA LUXEMBURG The government will hold the second round of talks with us from Feb 7 in New Delhi, though the modal...
INDIRA GOSWAMI Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety."
Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You can't start too early with the young ones to let that message really get inculcated into them an...
KEN HALL Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of obser...
HARRIET MARTINEAU Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of obser...
HARRIET MARTINEAU Biomasses are a biological reality that cannot be denied as existing, but even though they exist phy...
SUNDAY ADELAJA They just have different customs, and we want to be knowledgeable and accept those customs. One of t...
DAN ALLEN One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing S...
TERRY PRATCHETT Though this be madness, yet there is method
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's l...
RUPERT EVERETT Nay more, though all my rival rhymesters frown, / I too can hunt a poetaster down.
LORD BYRON let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in l...
JAMES BURGH If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it w...
ANDREW DENTON Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artist...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL We are fragile beings,yet we often act as though we couldn't be hurt,and as though we couldn't hurt ...
JOCELYN SORIANO Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
CATO THE ELDER William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS I am who I am. U r who u r. Be who u r. Don't let nobody tell u different.
TOMMI POLO There's never going to be a time that people are so healthy that they don't need information or to h...
LAUVE METCALFE Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.
HUMPHREY BOGART Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness,
Dawn will not veil her spleandor for your grief,...
SAROJINI NAIDU SING AND DANCE AND BE JOYOUS BUT LET EACH OF YOU BE ALONE EVEN AS THE STRINGS OF THE LUTE ARE ALONE ...
KAHIL GIBRAN Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never let the poor and destitute emigrant stop at New York - it will be his ruin
CALVIN COLTON There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no c...
JANE AUSTEN Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are tho...
RUCKETT I think this is a ridiculous outcome, ... These people are innocent and they should be freed immedia...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE I would be so lucky to be compared to her, ... I could never live up to that, though.
DENISE RICHARDS You will remain where you are...,until you change your mindset.
A.STEVE-IFEOLUWA Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resen...
AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO She wanted to be herself at all costs.
KIERA CASS Customs will seize items if they are fake.
CAMERON BELK Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned,...
MAE WEST My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned,...
MAE WEST Let justice be done, though the world perish
EMPEROR FERDINAND I Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
LORD MANSFIELD God made alcohol and he made feet - and he made 'em so you could put 'em together and be happy!
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islan...
LEWIS BLACK I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today&...
KIRK CAMERON Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon 'em.
EMILIE AUTUMN William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent.
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And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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...
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And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
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And t...
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And all the men and women merely players.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
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Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite ...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of!
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now we sit close about this taper here And call in question our necessities.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When most I wink, then do my eyes best see
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition-- ...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The proverb is something musty.
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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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When time is broke and no proportion kept!
So is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
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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.
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When his fair angels would salute by palm,
But for...
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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.
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...
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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 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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