William Shakespeare - Man Quotes

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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

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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 canst not then be false to any man.

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Child Roland to the dark tower came,
His word was still, Fie, foh, and fum,
I smell the blood of a British man.

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No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

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Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,?which is an excellent thing.

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There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.

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Malcolm: Dispute it like a man.
Macduff: I shall do so;
But I must also feel it as a man:
I cannot but remember such things were,
That were most precious to me.

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Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.

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In her days every man shall eat in safety
Under his own vine what he plants; and sing
The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.

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O, the difference of man and man!
To thee a woman's services are due.

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By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

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A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.

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They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye.

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Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
Not you, correct him.

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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage.

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O reason not the need! Our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life is cheap as beast's.

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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

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Who can be wise, amaz'd, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

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I am a man whom Fortune hath cruelly scratched.

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A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in, the wit is out.

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Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man?

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There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

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Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

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All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity. Think not the king did banish thee, But thou the king.

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A woman impudent and mannish grown
Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man.

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When could they say, till now, that talked of Rome,
That her wide walls encompassed but one man?
Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,
When there is in it but one only man.

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Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

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What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign:

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O constancy, be strong upon my side,
Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!
I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.

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