Apr 26, 1564 - Apr 23, 1616
English playwright, poet, actor
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Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
He is not great who is not greatly good.
Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.
For nothing can seem foul to those that win.
I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
An overflow of good converts to bad.
Talkers are no good doers.
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
Say as you think and speak it from your souls.
Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Get thee a good husband and use him as he uses thee.
An old man is twice a child.
All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.
\'We have seen better days.
The treasury of everlasting joy.
Such as we are made of, such we be.
The rest is silence.
A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.
Action is eloquence.
Joy delights in Joy.
There is no darkness but ignorance.
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
