William Shakespeare Quotes

Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

William Shakespeare

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• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• I go to a restaurant with a group of women and pray that we can order lunch without falling into the semi-covert business of collective monitoring, in which levels of intake and restraint are aired, compared, noticed: 'What are you getting? Is that all you're having? A salad? Oh, please.'

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Women
  • Business

• At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.

  

  Charles Eastman
  • She
  • Age
  • Father

• Go to bed. Whatever you're staying up late for isn't worth it.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Up
  • Bed
  • Late

• All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Live
  • Children

• People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do math.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • People
  • Believe
  • Education

• Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

  

  Eleanor Porter
  • Things
  • Plate

• When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Pride

• Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.

  

  Christopher Wren
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Mathematical

• But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.

  

  William Cowper
  • Heaven
  • Sail
  • Coast

• Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Running
  • Doubt
  • Pitcher

• Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Life
  • Art
  • Politics

• When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • Time
  • Hand

• Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Sky
  • Fields
  • Paints

• I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Actors
  • Married
  • Careers

• We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Fall

• Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

  

  Gary Hallinan
  • Opinion
  • Creating
  • Communicate

• Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fields
  • Mistress
  • Lilies