William Shakespeare

1. We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
2. Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
3. Cursed be he that moves my bones.
4. Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
5. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
6. Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
7. If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
8. Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
9. Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.
10.The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
11.This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.
12.Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].
13.Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
14.Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
15.If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
16.If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour!
17.The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
18.Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
19.We have seen better days.
20.Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.