Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.
The leopard does not change his spots.
People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
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.'
Love adds a precious seeing to the eye.
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.
Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.
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.
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.
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.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.
I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
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.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.
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