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Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) by Linux fortune

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
                -- William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona"
Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
                -- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"
Every cloud engenders not a storm.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
Every why hath a wherefore.
                -- William Shakespeare, "A Comedy of Errors"
Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.
                -- William Shakespeare, "The Rape of Lucrece"
For courage mounteth with occasion.
                -- William Shakespeare, "King John"
Harp not on that string.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his
argument.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
He hath eaten me out of house and home.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
                -- William Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew"
How apt the poor are to be proud.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Twelfth-Night"
I do desire we may be better strangers.
                -- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
I dote on his very absence.
                -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
                -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday.
                -- William Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew"
Let me take you a button-hole lower.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
                -- William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer-Night's Dream"
Must I hold a candle to my shames?
                -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
                -- William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"
Patch griefs with proverbs.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing"
Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"
Small things make base men proud.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
So so is good, very good, very excellent good:
and yet it is not; it is but so so.
                -- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
Talkers are no good doers.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
Tempt not a desperate man.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"
The better part of valor is discretion.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
                -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing"
The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
The ripest fruit falls first.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
There's small choice in rotten apples.
                -- William Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew"
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
Things past redress and now with me past care.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"
This night methinks is but the daylight sick.
                -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
This was the most unkindest cut of all.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"
Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues
of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping houses, and the blessed sun himself
a fair, hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst
be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.  I wasted time and now doth
time waste me.
                -- William Shakespeare
You may my glories and my state dispose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"
You tread upon my patience.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"
Zounds!  I was never so bethumped with words
since I first called my brother's father dad.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Kind John"
Remember thee
Ay, thou poor ghost while memory holds a seat
In this distracted globe.  Remember thee!
Yea, from the table of my memory
I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,
That youth and observation copied there.
Hamlet, I : v : 95   William Shakespeare
Remember thee
Ay, thou poor ghost while memory holds a seat
In this distracted globe.  Remember thee!
Yea, from the table of my memory
I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,
That youth and observation copied there.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
  Parting is such sweet sorrow. -William Shakespeare
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.  -William Shakespeare
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