Quotes 1321 till 1340 of 1730.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
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The worst is not. So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'
King Lear IV, 1 -
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
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Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?
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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
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Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.
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Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please - that is, as they please or displease us.
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hamlet II, 5
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