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Showing posts with label William Shakespeare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Shakespeare. Show all posts

Saturday, 18 May 2013

New friends

New friends may be
poems but old friends are
alphabets
Do not forget alphabets
because you will
need them to read
the poems

Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Laughing at your own mistakes

"Laughing at your own mistakes can lengthen your life"
  - Shakespear

"Laughing at your wif's mistakes can shorten your life"
  - Shakespear's wife

Tuesday, 9 August 2011

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-42

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-41

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Monday, 8 August 2011

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-40

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-39

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Boldness be my friend.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-38

By that sin fell the angels.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Death is a fearful thing.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-37

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-36

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

Tuesday, 19 July 2011

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-35

For my part, it was Greek to me.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-34

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-33

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-32

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-31

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

I bear a charmed life.

I dote on his very absence.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

Monday, 18 July 2011

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-30

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-29

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

I was adored once too.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-28

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

If music be the food of love, play on.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-27

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-26

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

Sunday, 17 July 2011

William Shakespeare Quotes Part-25

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Let no such man be trusted.

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