Popular Quotes Through Time

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come.

Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.

All difficulties are easy when they are known.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Words spoken cannot be recalled so think twice before you speak.

I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.

Love sees with the heart and not with mind.