'Brevity is the soul of wit'-who told it?

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Lord Byron
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Shakespeare
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Wordsworth

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Aristotle

He (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher. Plato was his teacher.

Quotation	Source
We make war that we may live in peace.	Nicomachean Ethics
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred improbable possibilities.	Poetics
Man is by nature a political animal.	Poetics
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no Politics need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.	Poetics

Christopher Marlowe

He (1564-1593) was an English playwright and poet.

Quotation	Source
Come live with me, and be my love. And we will all the pleasure prove, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. I That valley, groves, hills and tields, Woods or sleepy mountain yields.	The passionate shepherd to his love.

Edmund Burke

He (1729-1797) was an Irish born Whig politician and learned poet.

Quotation	Source
Tyrants seldom want pretext.	Personal Letter to a National Assembly Member
Between crafts and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.	Personal Letter to the Sheriff of Bristol.
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.	Reflection on the Revolution in France
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.	Speech on the Middlesex Election
The people are the masters.	Speech, Hansar

Francis Bacon

He (1561-1626) was an English lawyer, courtier, philosopher and essayist.

Quotation	Source
A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.	Of Friendship (Essay)
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.	Of Marriage and the Single Life
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.	Of Studies
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man	Of Studies
Histories make men wise; poets witty; trie Of Studies mathematics subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.	Of Studies
A mixture of lie doth ever add pleasure	Of Truth
Opportunity makes a thief	Advice to the earth of Essex

Gladstone

He (1809-1998) was a Former British Prime Minister and Liberal politician.

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Justice delayed is justice denied

Justice hurried is justice buried

Legal Maxim

John Donne

He (1572 - 1631) was an English poet.

Quotation	Source
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.	The Good Morrow
Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus.	The Sun rising
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime Nor; hours, days, months, which are the rags of time,	The Sun rising
She's all states, and all princes I Nothing else is.	The Sun rising
For; God's sake; hold your tongue, and Let me love.	The Canonization

Alexander Pope

He (1688-1744) was an 18th-century English poet.

Quotation	Source
To err human; to forgive is' divine	An Essay on Criticism
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
A little learning is a dangerous thing

John Milton

He (1608-1674) was an English epic poet.

Quotation	Source
Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven	Paradise Lost
….....This childhood shows the man,	Paradise Regained
As morning shows the daj Just are the ways of god, And justifiable to men; I Unless there be who think not God at all	Samson Agonistes
Love quarrels oft in pleasing cqncordjend.	Samson Agonistes
A good book is trie precious life-blood of a master spirt, Embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life.	Samson Agonistes
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue	Areopagitica
Freely according to conscience, above all liberties.	Areopagitica

John Keats

He (1795-1821) was an English Romantic poet.

Quotation	Source
"Beauty is truth, truth is beauty"- That is all, Ye know on earth, and all you need to know.	Ode on a Grecian Urn
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter;	Ode on a Grecian Urn
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hernlock had drunk	Ode to a Nightingale
She dwells with Beauty-Beauty that must die; A thing of beauty is a joy for ever	Ode on Melancholy Endymion

Jean Jacques Rousseau

He (1712-1778) was a French philosopher and novelist.

Quotation	Source
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains	Social Contract

Lord Byron

He (1788-1824) was an English Romantic poet.

Quotation	Source
Sweet is revenge-especially to women	Don Juan
Pleasure's sin and sometimes sin's a pleasure	Don Juan
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart is woman's whole existence	Don Juan

Matthew Arnold

He (1822-1888) was a Victorian poet. "Dover Beach", "Rugby Chapel", "The Scholar Gipsy", Thirsis are his famous poems.

Quotation	Source
The sea of faith was once, too at the full, and round earth's shore	Dover Beach
Love lends life a little grace A few sad smiles;	Mycemius
Poetry is a criticism of life.	Arnold's view
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men	Sohrab and Rustum

Neil Armstrong

He (1930-2012) an American Astronaut, was first to land in the moon in the 21st July, 1969.

Quotation	Source
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind	New York Times

Napoleon Bonaparte

He (1769-1821) was a Former French emperor and famous politician.

Quotation	Source
The career open to the talents.
England is a nation of Shopkeepers
Give us good mothers and I shall give you good nation
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools

Percy Bysshe Shelley

He (1792-1822) was an English Romantic poet.

Quotation	Source
I am daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursing of the sky.	The Cloud
If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?	Ode to the West Wind
Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud, I flat upon thorns of life! I bleed.	Ode to the West Wind
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest	To a Skylark
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world	A Defence of Poetry world

Robert Frost

He (1874-1963) was an American poet.

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep

on a Snowy Evening

Stopping by Woods

Good fences make good neighbours

Mending wall

S.T. Coleridge

He (1772-1834) was an English Romantic poet.

Quotation	Source
Alone, alone, all, all alone Alone on a wide, wide sea	The Rime of The Ancient Mariner
Water, water, everywhere Not a drop to drink	The Rime of The Ancient Mariner
He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small	The Rime of The Ancient Mariner

Thomas Gray

He (1716 - 1771) was an English poet.

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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,

I And waste its sweetness on the desert air

Elegy Written in a country Churchyard

Socrates

He (469-399 B.C) was a Greek Philosopher.

Quotation	Source
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorane	Plato "Apology"
The unexamined life is not worth living It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong or when we suffer evil to defend	Plato "Crito
It is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will actually exist in another worid.	Plato "Apology"

William Shakespeare

He (1564-1616) was an English playwright.

Quotation	Source
Cowards die many times before their death.	Julius Caesar
To be, or not to be; that is the question.	Hamlet
There are more things in heaven and earth,	Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy	Hamlet
Brevity is the soul of wit.	Hamlet
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude.	As you like It
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players	As you like It
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this I little hand	Macbeth
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,	Macbeth
It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing
Fair is foul, and foul is fair;
A young man married is a man that's marre
Sweet are the uses of adversity
All the word's stage, And all the men and Women merely players The have their exist and their entrance And each man in his time plays many parts His act being eyen ages'	As You like It
Come hither, come hither, come hither Here shall he see. No enemy But winter and rough weather	Under the Green Wood Tree
Frailty the name is woman	Hamlet

William Wordsworth

He (1770-1850) was an English Romantic poet.

Quotation	Source
Ten thousands saw I at a glance	I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
The Child is the father of the Man	My Heart Leaps up When I Behold
Behold her, single in the field, you solitary Highland Lass!	The Solitary Reaper

William Blake

He (1757-1827) was an English poet and painter in romantic period. He wrote "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience".

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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom

The Marriage and

To Mercy Pity Peace and Lovers

All pray in their distress

The Divine Image

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