English playwright, poet, and actor
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
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.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
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.
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
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.
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.