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William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet; b. 1564; d. 1616 · 10 aphorisms · no comments
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Comment# · Fair (712 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in
Wealth and Poverty
Comment# · Fair (786 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in
Success and Failure
Comment# · Fair (731 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, in
Life and Death
A Midsummer Night's Dream (paperback) Comment# · Fair (700 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in
Law and Politics
Comment# · Fair (758 ratings) · submitted 1999 by
Megan
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.
Comment# · Fair (273 ratings) · submitted 1997
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
Comment# · Fair (280 ratings) · submitted 1997
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
Comment# · Fair (277 ratings) · submitted 1997
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
Comment# · Fair (270 ratings) · submitted 1997
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
Comment# · Fair (327 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth, in
Life and Death
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