A Quote by William Shakespeare

Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

William Shakespeare

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Abuse Birth Fair Good Nor Stumbling True Use

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

And do so, love, yet when they have devised What strainèd touches rhetoric can lend, Thou, truly fair, wert truly sympathized In true plain words by thy true-telling friend; And their gross painting might be better used Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.

Richard Chenevix Trench

Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Voltaire

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Voltaire

He grinned, though his face was strained. “That’s it, love. Use me to make yerself feel good.

Elizabeth Hoyt

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

Al Roker

Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."

William Butler Yeats

Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

John Milton

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

Belinda Carlisle

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish

John Lyly

What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

Chanakya

It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward 'love' unselfishly for love's sake.

Swami Vivekananda

Fair use is important to innovators as well as consumers. It's fair use that allowed the VCR to innovate on top of the television.

Joe Kraus

All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd;nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business, Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care Take hold on me; for my particular grief Is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.

William Shakespeare

The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts you.