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William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet; b. 1564; d. 1616  ·  10 aphorisms  ·  no comments

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Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (271 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

[aphorist] William Shakespeare, in [category] Altruism and Cynicism

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (714 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

[aphorist] William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in [category] Wealth and Poverty

Henry VI (paperback)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (787 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Talkers are no good doers.

[aphorist] William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in [category] Success and Failure

Henry VI (paperback)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (732 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

[aphorist] William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, in [category] Life and Death

A Midsummer Night's Dream (paperback)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (701 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

[aphorist] William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in [category] Law and Politics

Henry VI (paperback)

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (758 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Megan

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

[aphorist] William Shakespeare, in [category] Happiness and Misery

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (273 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] William Shakespeare, in [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (281 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

[aphorist] William Shakespeare, in [category] Vice and Virtue

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (279 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

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

[aphorist] William Shakespeare, in [category] Altruism and Cynicism

Edit Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (327 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

[aphorist] William Shakespeare, Macbeth, in [category] Life and Death

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