William Shakespeare Quotes
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
William Shakespeare
Quotes to Explore
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham Lincoln
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
Fernando Botero
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
Man Ray
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
Larry Wall
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All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.
David Bowie
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
Samuel Johnson
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There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.
Yara Shahidi
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I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance.
Jamie Bell
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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
William Shakespeare