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To sport would be as tedious as to work."
--Shakespeare
The woman is a food worthy of Gods, when the Devil does not cook it.--Shakespeare--
Too much of a sweet thingThe deepest loathing to the stomach brings.
(I think of this phrase nearly every Thanksgiving ;)
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
"O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!"
The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,That ever I was born to set it right!
Shakespeare, Hamlet I, 5
"[Thou are] a knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave; a glass-gazing, superservicable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition. [sic] Draw, you rogue: for, though it be night, I'll make a sop o' the moonshine of you; draw, you cullionly barber-monger, draw."
I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.
And bring him out that is but woman's sonCan trace me in the tedious ways of art,
And hold me pace in deep experiments.
Shakespeare, Enrique IV
For where thou art, there is the world itself,With every several pleasures in the world,
And where thou art not, desolation
~ Henry VI Part II, Act III, Sc. II
It seems she hangs apon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethop's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.