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For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Though Fortune’s malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.
What is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And live we how we can, yet die we must.
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity.
She cannot love, Nor take no shape nor project of affection, She is so self-endeared.
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.