SMS Templates

''If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument than the bell rings and the widow weeps.''

''An honest woman's son, for indeed my father did something smack, something grow to, he had a kind of taste.''

'He hath a heart as sound as a bell and his tongue is the clapper, for what his heart thinks, his tongue speaks.'

'Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes.'

''I have no cunning in protestation—only downright oaths, which I never use till urged, nor never break for urging.''

''It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.''

'It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.'

''It illumineth the face, which as a beacon gives warning to all the rest of this little kingdom, man, to arm ... this valor comes of sherris.''

'There's no true drop of blood in him to be truly touched with love; if he be sad, he wants money.'

''I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad—and to travel for it too!''

'One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.'

''When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.''

'Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee; but, by this light, I take thee for pity.'

''I pray thee now, tell me for which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?''

''Though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain.''

''Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?''

''I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.''

''I cannot hide what I am. I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man's jests.''

An honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax.

''We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion.''