Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
We ignorant of ourselves beg often our own harms which the wise powers deny us for our good.
This too shall pass.
Conscience does make cowards of us all.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
Why then the world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.
Your honour's players, hearing your amendment, Are come to play a pleasant comedy,For so your doctors hold it very meet,Seeing too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of...
Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capabilit...
Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;And to do that well craves a kind of wit:He must observe their mood on whom he jests,The quality of persons, and the time,And, like the haggard, check at ev...
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
That time of year thou mayst in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hangUpon those boughs which shake against the cold,Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.In me thou seest...
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
Let every man be master of his time.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.