The leopard does not change his spots.
People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
Every why has a wherefore.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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