Category: Famous

  • March 23

    Brevity is the soul of wit.   

  • March 19

    Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

  • March 17

    To gild refinèd gold, to paint the lily,
    To throw a perfume on the violet,
    To smooth the ice, or add another hue
    Unto the rainbow…
    Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. 

  • March 15

    Cowards die many times before their deaths;
    The valiant never taste of death but once.

  • Bad Advice

    To beguile the time,
    Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
    Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
    But be the serpent under’t.

  • March 14

    Why, then the world’s mine oyster,
    Which I with sword will open.

  • March 12

    Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.