My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.
Have more than you show, speak less than you know.
There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.
Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight till it be tomorrow.
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial’s point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin’s fee.
It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
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 fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
I will praise any man that will praise me.
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
But men are men; the best sometimes forget.