“'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.”
“By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.”
“For I am full of spirit and resolve to meet all perils very constantly.”
“Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.”
“When we are born we cry that we are come.. to this great stage of fools.”
“That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.”
“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”
“I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.”
“Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.”
“Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.”
“As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.”
“To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.”
“Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.”
“Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?”
“Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.”
“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”
“O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.”
“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!”
“For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.”
“We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.”
“It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.”
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.”
“And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.”
“Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?”
“If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.”
“Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue.”
“Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.”
“Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”
“Life, It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.”
“She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.”