A Quote by William Shakespeare

To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.

William Shakespeare

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Bad Borne Good Grandmother My Grandmother Sons Think

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

Good wombs have borne bad sons." -- (Miranda, I:2)

William Shakespeare

I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.

Fannie Ellsworth Newberry

When it comes to partisan politics, everyone is a hypocrite. And all they care about is whether it hurts or helps them ... Is it good or bad for the Democrats? Is it good or bad for the Republicans? Is it good or bad for Jews, or good or bad for blacks, or is it good or bad for women? Is it good or bad for men? Is it good or bad for gays? That's the way people think about issues today. There is very little discussion of enduring principles.

Alan Dershowitz

All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.

William Ellery Channing

My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the same thing. Every time I hung out with her, I could only think of my recently deceased grandmother. So sometimes a signature scent can be good and sometimes it can be bad.

Mark Ronson

Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

William Shakespeare

Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

Sophocles

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.

I. L. Peretz

The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

Euripides

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

John Ruskin

There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to have his strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He who plants a tree looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing could be less selfish than this.

Washington Irving

Everything can be brought to the extreme. Food is good, overeating is bad. Possessions are good, hoarding is bad. Guilt is good, obsessing about guilt is bad. But I think guilt is good because I'm like, "Hey, I just stabbed that guy and I feel pretty good."