"When clouds are seen wise men put on……" — William Shakespeare
"When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand."
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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 Cloaks Quotes
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one of 174 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side.…
— Robert Byrd
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it…
— Willa Cather
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The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
— Margaret Cho
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How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The cloak of naiveté was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done.
— Unknown Author
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Shame is pride's cloak.
— William Blake
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other,…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
— Juvenal
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Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.
— Bertrand Russell
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I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that…
— Thomas S. Monson
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