If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.

Quote by Shakespeare

Topics: Major Holidays Quotes, Sports Quotes

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

Lord, what fools these mortals be.

Lord, what fools these mortals be.

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

I am not covetous for gold; but if it be a sin to covet honor,...

I am not covetous for gold; but if it be a sin to covet honor,...

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in...

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in...

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off...

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off...

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I...

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I...

But like of each thing that in season grows.

But like of each thing that in season grows.

Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.

Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.

The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely were too long

The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely were too long

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been,...

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been,...

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are...

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are...

Action is eloquence.

Action is eloquence.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops...

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops...

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.

Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste