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Life: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations
Thy life's a miracle.— K. L. iv. 6.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,— M. V. 5.
Signifying nothing. O gentlemen, the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely, were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at th' arrival of an hour.— H. IV. PT. I. v. 2
I see, a man's life is a tedious one.— Cym. iii. 6.
Like madness is the glory of this life.— T. A. i. 2.
Reason thus with life:- If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing,— M. M. iii. 1.
That none but fools would keep. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipp'd them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not— A. W. iv. 3.
cherished by our virtues. The sands are number'd that make up my life.— H.VI. PT. III. i. 4.
Life is a shuttle.— M. W. v. 1.
Thus play I, in one person, many people, And none contented.— R. II. 5.
O excellent! I love long life better than figs!— A.C. i. 2.
Think, ye see The very persons of our noble story, As they were living; think, you see them great, And follow'd with the general throng, and sweat, Of thousand friends, then, in a moment, see How soon this mightiness meets misery! H. VIII. prologue It is silliness to live, when to live is a torment: and then we have a prescription to die, when death is our physician. 0.1.3. That life is better life, past fearing death, Than that which lives to fear.— M. M. V. 1.
Thus, sometimes, hath the brightest day a cloud; And, after summer, evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold : So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.— H. VI. PT. II. ii. 4.
Epitomized
Camillo. I very well agree with you in the hopes of him: it is a gallant child; one that, indeed, physics the subject, makes old hearts fresh: they, that went on crutches ere he was born, desire yet their life, to see him a man. Archidamus. Would they else be content to die? Camillo.-Yes; if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live. Archidamus. If the king had no son, they would they desire to live on crutches till he had one.— W. T. i. 1.