“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.”
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
“And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.”
“To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.”
“Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.”
“Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.”
“Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.”
“'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”
“While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.”
“For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.”
“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.”
“The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.”
“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.”
“Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.”
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
“Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.”
“Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.”
“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. [Hamlet]”
“Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.”
“Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.”
“Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.”
“The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.”
“And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.”
“Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.”
“I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.”
“The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]”
“Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”
“I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.”
“He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.”