If music be the food of love, play on.
Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.
We will meet; and there we may rehearse mostobscenely and courageously.Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2
Totus mundus agit histrionem. [Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.]
Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.
These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triump die, like fire and powderWhich, as they kiss, consume
Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once.
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.
I am very proud, revengeful,ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I havethoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape,or time to act them in.
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.
Fool:He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health,a boy's love, or a whore's oath.King Lear (III, vi, 19-21)
Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.
And then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.
For some must watch while some must sleep thus runs the world away.