"I had rather be a Kitten, and cry……" — William Shakespeare
"I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie..."
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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 Axle Quotes
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one of 11 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
— John Milton
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The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.
— Austin O'Malley
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With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.
— Charles Frazier
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Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to…
— Jose Marti
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It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim…
— Haruki Murakami
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The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are…
— F. W. de Klerk
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It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a…
— James Houston
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Who would be a turtle who could help it? A barely mobile hard roll, a four-oared helmet, She can ill…
— Cheyanne My Friend
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