William Shakespeare Quotes

Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.

William Shakespeare

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• There is no such thing as a perfect mother.

  

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• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

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• I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.

  

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• Religion is induced insanity.

  

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• I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

  

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• The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.

  

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• No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

  

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• To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

  

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• I've known Bret Michaels forever.

  

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• Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

  

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• Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

  

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• I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.

  

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• (On airplane etiquette) Although reclining your seat is technically your right, just like free speech if you exercise it to your limits everyone around you will think you're an asshole. 18

  

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• I’m just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I’m the sort of person who worries about the difference between 'slim' and 'slender.'

  

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• Good-night; ensured release,Imperishable peace,Have these for yours,While sea abides, and land,And earth's foundations stand,And heaven endures.

  

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• Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

  

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• Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye.

  

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• An individual may perceive a way of life, or a method of social organisation, by which more of the desires of mankind could be satisfied than under the existing method. If he perceives truly, and can persuade men to adopt his reform, he is justified. Without rebellion, mankind would stagnate, and injustice would be irremediable.

  

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• If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

  

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• How can I tell them that I love them if I'm no longer there?

  

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• Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.

  

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• The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

  

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  • She

• Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Moon
  • Swear