WIST Quotations

Shakespeare, William -- Hamlet, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 268ff (2.2.268) (c. 1600)

Dave — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:31:20 +0000

HAMLET: For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 268ff (2.2.268) (c. 1600)
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Fuller, Thomas (1654) -- Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (compiler), # 3666 (1732)

Dave — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:03:52 +0000

Nothing is good or bad but by Comparison.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (compiler), # 3666 (1732)
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Cumberland, Richard (1732) -- The Observer (1788)

Dave — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 14:47:39 +0000

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Richard Cumberland (1732-1811) English dramatist and civil servant.
The Observer (1788)

Huxley, Aldous -- (Attributed)

Dave — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 13:24:27 +0000

Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
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Quoted in Laurence J. Peter, Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1979).

Fuller, Thomas (1654) -- Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 780 (1725)

Dave — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:27:11 +0000

Imitate what is good wheresoever thou findest it, though among Turks, Jews, Pagans, or even Papists. And abominate Evil, though in thy nearest Relation.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 780 (1725)
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