“From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope of the immoderate use… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To receive more, we must give out what we receive. . . . For it is by giving that we set in… — Baird T. Spalding Copy Share Image
Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was probably 14 or 15 when I was first on stage at school doing 'Measure for Measure.' I immediately felt it… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
“In what way can it act as master? Through scores of incarnations, the ‘self ’ we end up with is derived from… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“I mean to explore you thoroughly this time.” “Take heed, Captain. I’m prepared to answer all threats measure for measure.” — Sherri Browning Copy Share Image
Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Damson plums were a favorite Elizabethan fruit and “eaten before dyner, be good to provoke a mans appetyde.” They were also popular… — Francine Segan Copy Share Image
“The law of Kia is its ever original purpose, undetermined, without change the emanations, through our conception they materialize and are of… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There's that wonderful line in Measure for Measure. I forget which of the characters has committed adultery and is going to die.… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
“For this new-married man approaching here, Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd Your well defended honour, you must pardon For Mariana's sake:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image