This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.
William Shakespeare
Related To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer T... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by De... ANDREW MARVELL Love is Not All Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a r... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust. KURT VONNEGUT I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our me... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men could not part us with their worldly jars, Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend; ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free, That lets us go our unobtrusive way, WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN THE WEATHER OF LOVE Love Has a way of wilting Or blossoming At the s... SUZY KASSEM What is Friendship when complete? 'Tis to share all joy and grief; 'Tis to lend all due rel... ANNE FINCH Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,... GEORGE GORDON BYRON To be or not to be that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and ar... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, DANTE ALIGHIERI The season was waning fast Our nights were growing cold at last I took her to bed with sil... ROMAN PAYNE Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis. ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW Day n night passing by, No tribute, we cannot deny, We did to world's problems so deep, AKILNATHAN LOGESWARAN 'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth. HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a ... MARGARET ATWOOD This world that was our home for a brief spell never brought us anything but pai... OMAR KHAYYáM There is a desire within each of us, in the deep center of ourselves that we call our hea... GERALD G. MAY Tis not what you crave that feeds your soul... Tis my sunshine right after the rain When m... MELISSA MOJO HUNTER 'Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly sti... MATTHEW ARNOLD Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us lik... MATTHEW ARNOLD A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ; Su... ALEXANDER POPE To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The s... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Blessing #2: May love lead your eyes to look out for others, may love lead your ... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t... GARETH ROBERTS Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round LEWIS CARROLL Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or... JOHN MILTON Love is transcendent. It knows not of time nor space. It exist between 'us' for 'us.' Love and be lo... TRUTH DEVOUR No one knows if I'm dying to laugh or to cry So my verse has this almost imperceptible thr... MARIO QUINTANA From too much love of living From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving... ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE I know what love is and it is friendship, set afire. Love is easy. Love is chemistry—a ... WAYLON H. LEWIS Time waits for no man" but no man dares not wait for "his Time." "Love is patient" but Time is ... OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI Even though the darkness may come, Our love will always shine bright, Not only us, Bu... ANTHONY T. HINCKS All monotheisms should return to their respective times with our thanks for everything. This is... HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, L... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE At the sixes and sevens of our mind lead us oh Lord in Thy might In the moment to decide o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I do not love. Love is only for women who are complete. I cannot love while my heart lac... JIHAD ELTABEY A Litany for Survival For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon... AUDRE LORDE He'd been saving up his love for years and years, waiting for the right person to spend his for... JOHN MARK GREEN Of all the things that men may heed 'Tis most of love they sing indeed. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: That thou art happy, owe to God, That thou continu'st suc... JOHN MILTON For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails cur... D.H. LAWRENCE Tis the witching hour of night, Or bed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, g... JOHN KEATS Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round. LEWIS CARROLL O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This da... MICHAEL DRAYTON For I am convinced that neither death nor life neither angels nor demons neither the present nor the... ANONYMOUS Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Our favorite games were killing. Our favorite books were death. It had been beaten into us... JOSEPH BATHANTI And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, t... CHARLES DICKENS Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my ju... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All you who are in love Aye and can not remove it I pity the pain that you endure. Fo... MAGGIE STIEFVATER there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of t... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Liking and Loves for the Sub-Human “Need-love cries to God from our poverty; Gift-love ... C.S. LEWIS Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend, Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind, Wit... NICHOLAS ROWE Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known... SIR THOMAS MORE There are things that make no sense, that seem unreal, that can’t be grasped RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's... MICHAEL DRAYTON This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive. ELISABETH ELLIOT I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you directly without problems o... PABLO NERUDA Who dares deny that this is true: The whole is more than all its parts? A whole love than div... ARTHUR DILLON There's no difficulty that love cannot conquer... no door love cannot open... No wa... VAL UCHENDU Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor ... BIBLE For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness u... MAYA ANGELOU The error all women commit. Why can’t you women love us, faults and all? Why do you place us ... OSCAR WILDE The sea loved the moon When she was supposed to love the shore. The moon knew A... SAIBER We women are a sad lot, aren't we?" "What do you mean?" "Strong enough to take on the worl... RENEE AHDIEH What makes us leave what we love best? What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself When... CHARLES WRIGHT Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too ... THOMAS GRAY Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness to... THOMAS GRAY To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slin... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... KAHLIL GIBRAN They tell us the only way to move on is to forget. “Forgive,” they say. Realise ... KAMAND KOJOURI Olly: jesus. is there a girl on this planet who doesn't love mr.darcy Madeline: All girls love ... NICOLA YOON I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz, or arrow of carnations that propagate... PABLO NERUDA One ship sails east and another sails west With the self-same winds that blow. Tis the set of... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side FRED E. WEATHERLY Some would say it is madness to want a woman this way, but I think it must be love. Not the tep... BETTIE SHARPE Why, you'll be 'changed, m'dear. We'll just swap you for a human child who'll make a good servant to... ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW I said to my soul Be still And wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing... TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT The Savage nodded, frowning. "You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everyth... ALDOUS HUXLEY Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its e... WILLIAM BLAKE 'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess JOHN SELDEN ...suddenly I was afraid of what Father would say. Afraid he would say, "There'll be someone else so... CORRIE TEN BOOM Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) <... E.E. CUMMINGS We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape th... DALAI LAMA XIV And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds. King Henry VII... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Universe is very, very big. It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely str... CRAIG FERGUSON Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. ... KAHLIL GIBRAN They stay in my mind, these beautiful people, or anyway beautiful people to me, of which t... MARY OLIVER O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that th... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Only our love hath no decay; This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running it never runs... JOHN DONNE But yet let me lament with tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts [...] that our stars,... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For those who are not frightened by the solitude, everything will have a different taste. PAULO COELHO
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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
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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