Famous Quotes a420-a422

a420: My indignation, like th' imprisoned fire,
Pent in the troubled breast of glowing Etna,
Burnt deep and silent.
- Thomson.

a421: If anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurtful to us, than the injury that provokes it.
- Seneco.

a422: O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth!
Then with a passion would I shake the world.
- Shakespeare.

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Famous Quotes a301-a303

a301: A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortune.
- La Bruyere.

a302: Our natures are like oil; compound as with anything,
Yet will we strive to swim at the ton.
- Beaumont and Fletcher.

a303: Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality, that it is but a shadow's shadow.
- Shakespreare.

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Famous Quotes a286-a288

a286: Ambition is a lust that's never quenched,
Grows more inflamed, and madder by enjoyment.
- Otway.

a287: 'Tis a common proof.
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Wherto the climber upwards turns his face,
But when once attains the utmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.
- Shakespreare.

a288: Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness!
This is the state of man. To-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him;
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.
- Shakespreare.

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Famous Quotes a286-a288

a286: Ambition is a lust that's never quenched,
Grows more inflamed, and madder by enjoyment.
- Otway.

a287: 'Tis a common proof.
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Wherto the climber upwards turns his face,
But when once attains the utmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.
- Shakespreare.

a288: Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness!
This is the state of man. To-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him;
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost.
- Shakespreare.

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Famous Quotes a249-a252

a249: -ambition, idly vain;
Revenge and malice swell her train.
- Penrose.

a250: Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself.
- Shakespreare.

a251: What's all the gaudy glitter of a crown?
What but the glaring meteor of ambition,
That leads the wretch benighted in his errors,
Points to the gulf and shines upon destruction?
- Brooke.

a252: Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings,
Melts them; to ruin his own fortune brings.
- Shakespreare.

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Famous Quotes a178-a180

a178: Dream after dream ensues,
And still they dream that they shall still succeed,
And still are disappointed.
- Cowper.

a179: Ambition's like a circle of on the water,
Which never ceases to enlarge itself,
'Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
- Shakespeare.

a180: Accurst ambition.
How dearly I have bought you.
- Dryden.

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Famous Quotes a157-a159

a157: These old fellows have
Their ingratitude in them hereditary;
Their blood is caked, 'tis cold, it seldom flows;
'Tis lack of kindly warmth, they are not kind,
And nature, as it grows toward earth.
Is fashion'd for the journey--dull and heavy.
- Shakespeare.

a158: Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.
- Swift.

a159: Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth.
- La Rochefoucould.

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Famous Quotes a141-a143

a141: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye.
- Shakespeare.

a142: When men grow virtuous in their old age,
they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings.
- Swift.

a143: Last scene of all
That ends this strange, eventful history,
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
- Shakespeare.

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Famous Quotes a91

Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried.

Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,
Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee.

Give every man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

This above all; To thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day.
Thou cans't not then be false to any man.
- Shakespeare.

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