Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
~ William Shakespeare
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Death is a fearful thing.
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.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
But men are men the best sometimes forget.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
Boldness be my friend.
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
Let no such man be trusted.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
My pride fell with my fortunes.
For I can raise no money by vile means.
