“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

Playwright and poet · 1564 – 1616

English playwright and poet, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language; author of Hamlet and Macbeth.

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

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

Cowards die many times before their deaths.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.