“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”
William Shakespeare book The Passionate Pilgrim
The Passionate Pilgrim: A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.
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@xy, member from Sept. 25, 2023“The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Suffolk, Act III, scene i.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)
“I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Shakespeare's will
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
This statement by an unknown author has also been wrongly attributed to Julius Caesar, as well as to Shakespeare's play on his assassination and its aftermath, but there are no records of it prior to late 2000. It has been debunked at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm <br class="br">Misattributed
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Truly from Seneca the Younger, in De Ira, Book III, Chapter V:
Aut potentior te aut inbecillior laesit: si inbecillior, parce illi, si potentior, tibi.
Misattributed
“Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), ch. XII : Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Misattributed
Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Criminal_Minds_(season_1) Criminal Minds] ("L.D.S.K." - season 1, episode 6).
“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Alençon, Act III, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 1 (1592)
“The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Clifford, Act II, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.”
William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets
Source: Sonnets (1609), CXVI
“However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
Derived from a longer quote in Henry V, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 283.
Misattributed
“Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Bedford, Act I, scene i.
Henry VI, Part 1 (1592)
“The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!”
Hamlet, Act I, scene v.
Hamlet (1600–1)
William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Speed, Act II, scene i.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)
“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”
William Shakespeare Richard III
Richard, Act V, scene iv.
Richard III (1592–3)