Occupation: Dramatist Birth: 1559 Death: May 12, 1634
Ignorance is the mother of admiration..
Fate's such a shrewish thing..
Love is Natures second sun..
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after..
There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good..
Danger, the spur of all great minds..
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of..
Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought..
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, An….
An ill weed grows apace..
They're only truly great who are truly good..
Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none..
Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?.
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs..
Fair words never hurt the tongue..
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools..
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion..
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel..
Tis immortality to die aspiring..
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf..
The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster..