“Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.”
“The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.”
“I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.”
“Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.”
“What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.”
“O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!”
“The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet]”
“Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.”
“If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.”
“'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.”
“By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.”
“For I am full of spirit and resolve to meet all perils very constantly.”
“Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.”
“When we are born we cry that we are come.. to this great stage of fools.”
“That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.”
“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”
“I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.”
“Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.”
“Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.”
“As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.”
“To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.”
“Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.”
“Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?”
“Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.”
“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”
“O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.”
“For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.”
“We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.”
“It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.”
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.”