Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.

Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!