William Shakespeare Quotes

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

William Shakespeare

• Joy
• Happiness
• Laughter
• Laughing
• Mirth

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Father
  • Me
  • Friendly

• Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Money
  • American
  • America

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Poor
  • Leave
  • Behind

• Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sometimes
  • Never
  • Laugh

• Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Different
  • Wrestling
  • Quiet

• I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Important
  • You
  • Sometimes

• Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Environment
  • Creative
  • Process

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Alone

• I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Just
  • Consistent

• I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.

  

  Idris Elba
  • America
  • Government
  • Red

• Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Think
  • Man
  • Laugh

• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Me

• Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Course

• Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Great
  • Art
  • American

• The landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Lord
  • Landscape
  • Rings

• Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant and ugly sound like scholars and movie stars, turned the mean and evil into saints and angels. She knew what people had meant to be in their hearts, not what the world had forced them to become. She knew the ways in which working too hard for paltry wages could turn you mean and cold, could kill the thing that made you laugh.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • Heart
  • Mean

• They may have salt, sugar, and fat on their side, but we, ultimately, have the power to make choices. After all, we decide what to buy. We decide how much to eat.

  

  Michael Moss
  • Choices
  • Sides
  • Sugar

• We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • High
  • Leaving
  • Students

• Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Joy
  • Happiness
  • Laughter