Can’t Beat Them?
Let me embrace the sour adversaries
For wise men say it is the wisest course.
— Henry VI Part 3,
Act III, Scene i

Let me embrace the sour adversaries
For wise men say it is the wisest course.
— Henry VI Part 3,
Act III, Scene i

Our doubts are traitors
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
–Measure for Measure,
Act I, Scene iv

And oftentimes excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
–King John,
Act IV, Scene ii

What’s sweet to do, to do will aptly find.
-A Lover’s Complaint

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself.
-Henry VIII,
Act I, Scene i

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
-Henry V,
Act II, Scene iii

How poor are they that have not patience!
— Othello,
Act II, Scene iii