"He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and……" — William Shakespeare
"He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit."
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William Shakespeare
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3,182 Quotes by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare has 3,182 quotes on this site.
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Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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People usually are the happiest at home.
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In delay there lies no plenty.
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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Grief makes one hour ten.
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Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.
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I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting…
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
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More Folly Quotes
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the…
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all…
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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
— Abu Bakr
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none…
— John Quincy Adams
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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life…
— Bernard Baruch
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by…
— Joseph Addison
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
— Joseph Addison
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
— Annie Besant
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
— Josh Billings
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