William Shakespeare

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-William Shakespeare


A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
-William Shakespeare

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

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
-William Shakespeare

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.
-William Shakespeare

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

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

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
-William Shakespeare



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

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
-William Shakespeare

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
-William Shakespeare

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


How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
-William Shakespeare

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

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
-William Shakespeare

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.
-William Shakespeare

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

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.
-William Shakespeare