Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth

Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!

And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

Ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear, for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet--nay, sometime more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather.