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- But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part I, Act V, sc. 4
- My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VI, Part I, Act I, sc. 5
- A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 4
- Time is like a fashionable host
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act III, sc. 3
- The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, sc. 2
- While you live tell truth and shame the devil.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part I, Act III, 1
- The better part of valour is discretion.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part I, Act V, 4
- Thy wish was father... to that thought.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part II, Act IV, 5
- When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
- Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929), Conversation with Jean Martet, January 1 1929
- Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
- Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967), The Art of Living
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