Quote of William Shakespeare - Our bodies are our gardens, to...

Biography - William Shakespeare:

English poet, playwright and actor.
Born: 1564 - Died: 1616
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice

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"Our bodies are our gardens ; to the which our wills are gardeners..."

Source: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice

Internet Archive - Shakespeare - Othello, the moor of Venice (en)

Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.

Translation

(French, German)

Notre corps est notre jardin, et notre volonté en est le jardinier.

William Shakespeare - Othello ou le Maure de Venise

Unser Körper ist unser Garten, und unser Wille der Gärtner.

William Shakespeare - Othello, der Mohr von Venedig

Quotes for: body

Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - De oratore /

A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis /

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Gautama Buddha /

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra /

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle /

With most people the heart grows old with the body.

Guy de Maupassant /

All body quotes...

Quotes about will:

Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.

Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain - Propos sur le bonheur /

A great part of progress consists in the desire to make progress.

Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium /

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky /

We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible.

François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Mahatma Gandhi /

The will of man is his happiness.

Friedrich Schiller - Wallenstein /

All about will...

Quotes about garden:

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ad Familiares, Letter IV to Varro /

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Oscar Wilde /

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Victor Hugo

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

William Shakespeare also said...

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

What's done cannot be undone.

William Shakespeare - Macbeth /

fact

Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.

William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing /

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;

William Shakespeare - Romeo und Julia /

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