William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.

Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.[Measure For Measure]

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

There is 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 we are now afloat; and we must take the current the clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon. when it serves, or lose our ventures.

The apparel oft proclaims the man.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.

In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness ;thrust upon em.

The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [Merchant Of Venice]

Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.

Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.

That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. [Twelfth Night]

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. [The Tempest]

All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.

The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.