Nothing is so common

"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable."

~William Shakespeare

I do not ask

I do not ask you much:
I beg cold comfort.

~William Shakespeare

Beggar that I am

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.

~William Shakespeare

Our doubts

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

~William Shakespeare

Our bodies

Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners.

~William Shakespeare

Thou art

“Thou art all ice.
Thy kindness freezes.”

~William Shakespeare

The iron tongue

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve; lovers to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.

~William Shakespeare

Hand in hand

Hand in hand, with fairy grace,
Will we sing, and bless this place.

~William Shakespeare

This above all

"This above all:
to thine own self be true."

-William Shakespeare

Though justice be

Though justice be
Thy plea, consider this:
That in the course of justice
none of us should see salvation.
We do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer
doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.

~William Shakespeare

The quality of mercy

The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless’d;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthroned in the heart of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God’s
When mercy seasons justice.

~William Shakespeare

but we all are men

...but we all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels...

~William Shakespeare

Be wary

Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.

~Shakespeare, Hamlet

'Tis now the very

'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.

~William Shakespeare

Our doubts

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

~William Shakespeare

If a man

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

I would give

I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

~Shakespeare, Henry V