"Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew……" — William Shakespeare
"Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak."
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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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Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.
— William Shakespeare
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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work…
— John Milton
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When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that…
— George Orwell
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed…
— Victor Hugo
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You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that…
— Horace Kephart
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Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe.
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Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of…
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