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

"It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions."

"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."

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

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

"I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man."

"God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another."

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."

"Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life."

"Death is a fearful thing."

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

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

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."

"To do a great right do a little wrong."

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

"I bear a charmed life."

"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness."

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."

"Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct."

"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."

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

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

"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."

"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."

"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

"Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything."

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."

"If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul."

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."

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

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

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"Women may fall when there's no strength in men."

"The valiant never taste of death but once."

"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!"

"O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"

"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."

"Love is too young to know what conscience is."

"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"

"There is no darkness but ignorance."

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

"There's place and means for every man alive."

"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"