Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
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William Shakespeare
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About William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are perf…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by William ShakespeareThey do not love that do not show their love.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
Speak low, if you speak love.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
If music be the food of love, play on.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
I bear a charmed life.
Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat.…
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.