William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

He that dies pays all debts.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

I tell you, if you’re in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you’re back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you’ve got to keep moving.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Treat everyone as if they were a guest in your own house, because in reality, they are a guest in your own world.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

Love is knowing every goodbye has a hello on the horizon.

You, and only you, choose how you feel.

One needs to be successful in the conventional way to learn just how far away from success it may be.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Let us not, however, upon this account rashly conclude that she is capable of supporting any burden, nor even be too confident that she could support, without great distress, a burden a little greater than what has already been laid upon her.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim…

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.