How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? patience
Women may fall when there's no strength in men. men, strength & women
No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing. patience
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! God
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone. time
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. men
Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. life
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one. sadness
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? courage & love
Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once. death
But men are men the best sometimes forget. best & men
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. fear
The valiant never taste of death but once. death
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. happiness
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. life
The love of heaven makes one heavenly. love
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. being good
For I can raise no money by vile means. money
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. imagination
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor. men
The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones. being good & men
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. the future
I bear a charmed life. life
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. being good
If music be the food of love, play on. food, love & music
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear. being good
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. sympathy
An overflow of good converts to bad. being good
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. trust
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. being good, life & nature
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. being good & romance
Speak low, if you speak love. love
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. nature & time
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains. peace
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. being good & love
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. faith, greatness & men
Love is too young to know what conscience is. love
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. being good
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones. greatness, men & nature
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. hope & New Year's Day
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. death
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too! experience, sadness & travel
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. aging
The golden age is before us, not behind us. aging
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart. being good
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired. death
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. love
They do not love that do not show their love. love
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. being good & marriage
When a father gives to his son, both laugh when a son gives to his father, both cry. Father's Day
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. music
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. love
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. God, intelligence & knowledge
Men shut their doors against a setting sun. men
Men's vows are women's traitors! men & women
It is a wise father that knows his own child. Father's Day
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. nature
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems. best
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. art
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. God
In time we hate that which we often fear. fear & time
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. greatness
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. love
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. faith & God
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. love
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds. being good
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. greatness
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces. being good & men
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. love
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. love & trust
Time and the hour run through the roughest day. time
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. time
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! men
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. time
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. God
A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. nature & peace
To do a great right do a little wrong. greatness
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. men & women
Death is a fearful thing. death
The course of true love never did run smooth. love
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. greatness & men