"Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a……" — William Shakespeare
"Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?"
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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 Buys Quotes
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Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
— Andrew Carnegie
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The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce…
— Unknown Author
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The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going…
— Tom Coburn
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No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
— Garrison Keillor
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then…
— Ezra Pound
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When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he…
— Milton Friedman
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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.
— Unknown Author
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Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private…
— Mae West
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I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I…
— Nat King Cole
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The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys…
— Burl Ives
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Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought…
— Dennis Miller
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