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Quote by William Shakespeare
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and of

Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. – William Shakespeare

Other quotes by William Shakespeare

Since I was man,
Such sheets of fire, such bursts of torrid thunder
Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never
Remember to have heard. – William Shakespeare

Category:
Thunderstorms
Author
William Shakespeare
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Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none. – William Shakespeare

Category:
Ritual, Ceremony
Author
William Shakespeare
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Promises
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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. – Proverb

Category:
Promises

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Category:
Promises

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. – Edgar Watson Howe

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Promises

Oaths are the fossils of piety. – George Santayana

Category:
Promises

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Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. – Antisthenes

Category:
Enemy, Enemies

The music I do is food… that will be your dinner. – Ziggy Marley

Category:
Food

Let your working ideas go for a picnic — sometimes the fresh air and ant bites are just what they need. Many great ideas were bitten a little at the beginning. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Ideas

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers. – Scott Walker

Category:
Government