The Wisdom of Shakespeare

• Of all knowledge , the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

• Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

• Make not your thoughts your prisons.

• Gold is worse than poison to men's souls, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug.

• Give every man your ear, but few your voice, take each man's censure, but reserve your jusdegement.

• Every braggart shall be found an ass.

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

• A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

• How bitter a thing it is to look into hapiness through another man's eyes.

• Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.

• He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.

• I think the king is but a man, as I am: The violet smells to him as it does to me .

• An enterprise, when once begun, should not be left till all is won.

• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women in it merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts.

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

• Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

• Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.

• Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it.

• There was never yet philosopher that could endure that toothache patiently.

• Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest timbered oak.