William Shakespeare

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"I bear a charmed life."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show."

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."

"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."

"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings."

"A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)"

"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."

"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."

"I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it."

"whats here a cup closed in my true loves hand poisin i see hath been his timeless end. oh churl drunk all and left no friendly drop to help me after. i will kiss thy lips some poisin doth hang on them, to help me die with a restorative. thy lips are warm.yea noise then ill be brief oh happy dagger this is thy sheath. there rust and let me die."

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

"There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now..."

"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!"

"Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves."

"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"

"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."

"Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow"

"Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."