William Shakespeare

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.”

“Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.”

“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”

“Death is a fearful thing.”

“The valiant never taste of death but once.”

“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

“O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!”

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

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

“Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.”

“I bear a charmed life.”

“We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.”

“Time and the hour run through the roughest day.”

“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

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

Hamlet, Act 1, scene 5

“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

“Boldness be my friend.”

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

“Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”

“To do a great right do a little wrong.”