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Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. William Shakespeare
You Heart Bosom Knock Know Go Doth Ask Your
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. William Shakespeare
Wise Doubt Beacon Modest
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens. Zora Neale Hurston
Somebody Else Eat Chickens Gods Depending Anybody Fox
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. Anton Chekhov
Fools Nothing Everything Pretend Charlatans Only He Know Understand Does Psychologist Should
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still. Anton Chekhov
Life You Heart Become Think Relations Complex About Terrifying Becomes Still Human Your Stands Human Relations
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. Brendan Behan
People Other Jews Irish Nationality Psychosis
You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Life Daily You Imagination Refresh Really Use Your Daily Life
I look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes to walk with and two fingers to look with. I put my head on the floor to sit down, I put my bottom on the ceiling. After eating the music box, I spread jam on the rug for a great dessert. Eugene Ionesco
Music Great Eyes Walk Sit Down Rug Ears Dessert Out Eating Fingers Ten Open Bottom Put Head Look Box Spread Pillow Ceiling Wall Jam After While Chair Floor Two
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. George Bernard Shaw
Happiness Broken Peace Heart Feeling Matters Beginning Nothing Pain Our More Mercifully Beyond Powers Sort End Curious Goes Any Sensation Burned Boats Nothing Matters Your
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present. George Bernard Shaw
Capitalism Property Selfish Socialism Matter Free First Consideration Anathema Distribution Equal Private Contract Private Property Left May Interest Income Play Cardinal Present Basis
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. George Bernard Shaw
Man More Fact Point Drunken Than Happier Sober Skeptic Believer
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. George Bernard Shaw
Capitalism Power Our Backed Destroyed Self Force Self-Interest Effective Any Interest Belief
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. George Bernard Shaw
Made Born Kings Hallucination Artificial
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. Oscar Wilde
Teacher Learning Everybody Taken Incapable Teaching Who
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde
Good Advice Oneself Only Never Pass Always Any The Only Thing Good Advice Use Thing
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. Oscar Wilde
President Journalism Years Governs Forever America Reigns Ever Four
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. Oscar Wilde
Better Permanent Than Fascinating Income
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. Oscar Wilde
Critic Educate Artist Public
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. Tennessee Williams
Life People Strong Desperate Easier Out Characters Strong People Seemingly Hysteria Reach Identify Another Verge Were Frightened Person Really Who Found Fragile
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. William Shakespeare
Time Our Waves Hasten Minutes Towards Like Make End Shore
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. William Shakespeare
Wine Devil Thou Spirit Invisible Name Call Known Thee Us Let Us
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. William Shakespeare
Women Sky Men Changes April Wed Maids Wives May December Woo
The wheel is come full circle. William Shakespeare
Circle Come Wheel Full
I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. Zora Neale Hurston
Harp Out Wrapped Kitchen Pots Sorrow Been Mountain Hands Stood Then Sword Rainbows
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. Anton Chekhov
Peace Sky Find See Angels Shall Diamonds Hear Sparkling
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. Brendan Behan
Day Every Day Seen Every Unable Critics Like Know How Done Themselves Harem
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