Worth Quoting

William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564. He died on the same date 52 years later. Here are some life lessons from his works.

• Action is eloquence.
• Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
• Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
• How use doth breed a habit in a man.
• I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
• In time we hate that which we often fear.
• Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
• Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
• Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
• The soul of this man is in his clothes.
• We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
• We know what we are, but not what we may be.
• Brevity is the soul of wit.
• There are occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
• An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
• Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
• Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
• All that glisters is not gold.
• Nothing can come of nothing.
• Method in the madness.
• The world's mine oyster.

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