William Shakespeare

“Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.”

“This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”

“I bear a charmed life.”

“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”

“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.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.”

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”

“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.”

“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”

“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”