Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new- hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare 
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
- William Shakespeare
Stay hopeless and confused. Keep polishing those skills.
- the movie When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
- Terry Pratchett
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Advice is seldom welcome,
and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- Lord Chesterfield
It ain't those parts of the Bible
that I can't understand that bother me,
it is the parts that I do understand.
- Mark Twain
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Things may come to those who wait,
but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Those who won our independence...
valued liberty as an end and as a means.
They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness
and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Grant That I May Radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace,
to All Those Around Me
and All Those in My Thoughts
This Day and Ever More.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those distractions that turn my attention from
what I thought I was going to do today are not "rat holes";
they are Enchanted Rabbit Holes
with a Magical White Bunny awaiting in each.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Keep the company of those who seek the truth;
run from those who have found it.
- V�clav Havel
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Those whom we can love, we can hate;
to others we are indifferent.
- Henry David Thoreau
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
There is a time to cry for those we have lost,
and there is a time to wipe the tears and smile again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
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