SMS Templates

''I am a fellow o'the strangest mind i'the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether.''

''If ye should lead her in a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behavior.''

''He does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies.''

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

'When wilt thou leave fighting o' days and foining o' nights, and begin to patch up thine old body for heaven?''

''It is as easy as lying. Govern these ventages with your fingers and thumbs, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.''

'You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.''

''The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.''

''Virtue? a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.''

''Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and then there is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.''

''If you meet a thief, you may suspect him, by virtue of your office, to be no true man.''

''I would not deny you; but, by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion; and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption.''

''Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.''

Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry "Heigh-ho for a husband!

''Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.''

''Manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.''

''The Count is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor well; but civil count, civil as an orange, and something of that jealous complexion.''

''It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.''

''The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was!''

''When he was naked he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.''