Added New Quotes ^_^ Lots from william shakespeare... his great isn't he?

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
William Shakespeare

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
William Shakespeare

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
William Shakespeare

Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude.
William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
William Shakespeare

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
William Shakespeare

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
William Shakespeare

I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve.
William Shakespeare

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
William Shakespeare

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh

For aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Act 1 scene 1

Lord, what fools these mortals be!
William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Act 2 scene 2

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts...
William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 2 scene 7

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Address on The Method of Nature, 1841

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 5 scene 1

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
Alan Patrick Herbert

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
Clint Eastwood

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
Jane Austen

The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
Samuel Johnson

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.
Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.
Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet: Or like a whale?
Polonius: Very like a whale.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 2

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3

Et tu, Brute!
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?
Fred Allen

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
William Shakespeare, "King Richard III", Act 5 scene 4

When I die, I want you to bury me upside down, so the whole world can kiss my ass.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luthur King Jr.

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
Mark Twain

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James

A penny saved is ridiculous.

Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.

"Things should be made as simple as possible - no simpler."
- Albert Einstein

"Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons."
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I love work; it fascinates me; I can sit and watch it for hours.

"Of course you found it in the last place you looked. If you hadn't found it you'd still be looking"

It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Blood is thicker than water, and much tastier.
Anonymous vampire