Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm