Popular Quotes from Great Minds

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

absence

As in a theatre, the eyes of m

acting

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

action

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

adversity

Sweet are the uses of adversit

adversity

'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder, where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.

Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad

Vaulting ambition which o'er leaps itself.

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; in apprenhension, how like a god; the beauty of the world the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust?

beauty

Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.

beauty

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

business

O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness.

character

True nobility is exempt from fear.

class

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.

death

They that touch pitch will be defiled.

defilement

Men at some time are masters of their fates:<

destiny

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

doubt

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

fame

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

father

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

fear

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

fool

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

happiness

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

heaven

To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

honesty

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

husband

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

hypocrisy

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

ignorance

I do desire we may be better strangers.

independence

Those that are good manners at thecourt are as ridiculed in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable atthe court.

individuality

The course of true love never did run smooth.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. (<u>As You Like It</u>)

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; <

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, <

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

marriage

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

music

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

nothing

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

order

My patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer, with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.

patience

For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.

philosophy

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

pride

Weariness can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth finds the down pillow hard.

sleep

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.

sorrow

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

success

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

success

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

success