A Quote by William Shakespeare

Tempt not a desperate man

William Shakespeare

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Desperate Man

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William Shakespeare
English - Playwright
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616

Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide.

Simon Barnes

The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair.

Blaise Pascal

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

Charles Spurgeon

He asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers." "are you desperate?" "I don't know.

Charles Bukowski

'Desperate Housewives' - there's no man on the planet that takes that personally, but if it were 'Desperate Househusbands,' they would shut ABC down.

Mike Binder

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

What the entertainment industry can do is tempt you into making stupid mistakes, but the only tool that they have to tempt you is money. So if youre okay saying no to money, then you can say no to a lot of things that you might be embarrassed of later.

Paul Schneider

In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.

David Bailey

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

My 20s were all about feeling desperate. Desperate to find a new boyfriend. Desperate to get the perfect job. Desperate to get rid of this terrible relationship with this bad new boyfriend.

Jessi Klein

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

George Savile

Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I was desperate to leave Hamburg. The club was awesome, don't get me wrong, but I had a personal issue with one of the board members. He was desperate to get me out. The first club came calling, and it was Man City.