William Shakespeare

“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.”

“'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.”

“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”

“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.”

“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”

“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”

“An overflow of good converts to bad.”

“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”

“Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.”

“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.”

“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”

“I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.”

“Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.”

“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.”

“There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”

“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”