▶ "Time and the hour run through the roughest day."; "This above all; to thine own self be true."; "Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear."; "They say miracles are past."; "They do not love that do not show their love."; …"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."; "There is no darkness but ignorance."; "The wheel is come full circle."; "The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."; "The valiant never taste of death but once."; "The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."; "The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."; "The object of art is to give life a shape."; "The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."; "The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."; "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact."; "The love of heaven makes one heavenly."; "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."; "The golden age is before us, not behind us."; "The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it."; "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."; "The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."; "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."; "The course of true love never did run smooth."; "The attempt and not the deed confounds us."; "Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart."; "Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt."; "Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."; "Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."; "Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."; "Such as we are made of, such we be."; "Speak low, if you speak love."; "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."; "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."; "So foul and fair a day I have not seen."; "Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."; "Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove."; "Poor and content is rich, and rich enough."; "Pleasure and action make the hours seem short."; "Parting is such sweet sorrow."; "Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains."; "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."; "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."; "O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"; "O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."; "O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"; "O, had I but followed the arts!"; "O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil."; "O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"; "Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."; "Now is the winter of our discontent."; "Nothing can come of nothing."; "No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."; "No legacy is so rich as honesty."; "Neither a borrower nor a lender be."; "Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."; "My pride fell with my fortunes."; "My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy."; "Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."; "Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."; "Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes."; "Men shut their doors against a setting sun."; "Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."; "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."; "Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything."; "Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind."; "Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."; "Love is too young to know what conscience is."; "Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."; "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."; "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."; "Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!"; "Listen to many, speak to a few."; "Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."; "Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life."; "Let no such man be trusted."; "Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."; "Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."; "Lawless are they that make their wills their law."; "It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood."; "It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions."; "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."; "It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so."; "It is a wise father that knows his own child."; "Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"; "In time we hate that which we often fear."; "In a false quarrel there is no true valor."; "Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."; "If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"; "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."; "If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me."; "If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor."; "If music be the food of love, play on."; "If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul."; "I will praise any man that will praise me."; "I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."; "I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."; "I was adored once too."; "I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."; "I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man."; "I say there is no darkness but ignorance."; "I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire."; "I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."; "I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."; "I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"; "I dote on his very absence."; "I bear a charmed life."; "I am not bound to please thee with my answer."; "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"; "How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!"; "How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world."; "Hell is empty and all the devils are here."; "Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself."; "He that is giddy thinks the world turns round."; "He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."; "He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural."; "Having nothing, nothing can he lose."; "God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another."; "God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."; "Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."; "Give thy thoughts no tongue."; "Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me."; "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."; "Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."; "For my part, it was Greek to me."; "For I can raise no money by vile means."; "Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."; "Farewell, fair cruelty."; "False face must hide what the false heart doth know."; "Expectation is the root of all heartache."; "Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct."; "Desire of having is the sin of covetousness."; "Death is a fearful thing."; "Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."; "Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."; "Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."; "By that sin fell the angels."; "Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."; "Words without thoughts never to heaven go."; "With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."; "Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast."; "Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"; "Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."; "When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."; "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."; "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."; "When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."; "What is past is prologue."; "What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god."; "We know what we are, but know not what we may be."; "We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements."; "Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes."; "Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."; "Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?"; "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."; "Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him."; "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."; "To do a great right do a little wrong."; "To be, or not to be: that is the question."; "But men are men; the best sometimes forget."; "Brevity is the soul of wit."; "Boldness be my friend."; "Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."; "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."; "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."; "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."; "As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."; "As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him."; "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."; "And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."; "And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."; "An overflow of good converts to bad."; "Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."; "Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"; "Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."; "A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."; "A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."; "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
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