English - Dramatist | April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616
Men's vows are women's traitors!
William Shakespeare
WomenMenTraitorsVows
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
MenSunDoorsAgainstShutSetting
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
NaturePeaceLoserPartyConquest
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
NatureLiveSeaGreatMenEat
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
FallOne ThingThingTisAnother
Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.
GreatTimeBornFoolsCryFirst
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
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When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WordsVainSeldomSpentScarce
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
UsGodsFliesSportWanton
I was adored once too.
LoveOnceTooAdored
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
StrengthWomenMenFallMay
I dote on his very absence.
AbsenceHisVery
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