William Shakespeare Quotes

Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

William Shakespeare

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Books
  • Shame

• Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • She
  • Man
  • Feeling

• Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Success
  • Feeling
  • Shame

• The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • New
  • Tongue
  • Teeth

• A lot of people tell me now I'm their inspiration. They say, 'I don't play baseball,' and then they mention whatever - engineer, doctor, college student, high school student - but they're hurt because, for some reason, people feel shame about themselves or embarrassed because they are short or skinny or fat or whatever.

  

  Jose Altuve
  • People
  • Inspiration
  • Shame

• Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Philosophy
  • Doors
  • Shame

• Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Never
  • Shame

• We feel bad from a team standpoint for Todd. He worked very hard this offseason. He was having a heck of a camp, and its a shame this happened.

  

  Andy Reid
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Hard

• I believe that we are a story-driven species and that we understand how things are put together, in the context of narrative. It's a shame that science hasn't been taught that way, in a long time. It's usually the fact completely devoid of any human experience or any idea of how the scientist came to that conclusion.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

  

  Xenocrates
  • Silence
  • Communication
  • Tongue

• Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue

  

  Zeno of Citium
  • Feet
  • Tongue

• Caught between the tongue and the taste.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Taste
  • Tongue
  • Caught

• Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Poverty
  • Sin
  • Shame

• Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Men
  • Law

• Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. If you can't bless it, get ready to make it new.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Children
  • Love
  • Friends

• I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Music
  • Country
  • I Love

• Defeat would not be a shame, ... This is a competition.

  

  Mathieu Kerekou
  • Competition
  • Shame
  • Defeat

• Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and me alone, and I will show you such a love!

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Tongue
  • Eternal Love
  • No True

• Be strong, know who you are, no be shame, stand up, e ala e.

  

  Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
  • Strong
  • Knows
  • Shame

• Religion is the resolute following of the star of hope through triumphs and tragedies of time.

  

  Eustace Haydon
  • Hope
  • Religion
  • Following

• Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses.

  

  Stephen Pagliuca
  • Teacher
  • Businesses
  • Consulting

• Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • Society
  • Past

• Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Shame
  • Tongue
  • Orators