Occupation: Dramatist Birth: 1580 Death: 1634
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light..
All things do help the unhappy man to fall..
How tedious is a guilty conscience!.
When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty..
Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!.
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue..
Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe..
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment..
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust..
Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise..
Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens..
A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard..
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom..
Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither..
The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still..
Love mixed with fear is sweetness..
See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast..
Poor maids have more lovers than husbands..
Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old….
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best..
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin..