Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.
The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul.
Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon.
Three jolly huntsmen, In coats of red, Rode their horses Up to bed.
When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.
Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill
If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
Or, bide thou where the poppy blows With windflowers fail and fair.
So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.
I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion.
Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one.
You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.
We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.
Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.
If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.
There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.
I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.
Cold indeed, and labor lost: Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!
What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?
Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?
I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?
Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath.
Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.
A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.
The heavenly-harness'd team Begins his golden progress in the east.
Retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave.
I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.