Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.

Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.