Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
Sweet are the uses of adversity Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
All the world's a stage.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
Totus mundus agit histrionem. " [Motto of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (f. 1599) and its acting company, The King's Men; taken from the first play to be performed on the new stage.]
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every t...
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
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 would not change it.
O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely,
O, that's a brave man! He writes brave versrs, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely,
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly! This life is most jolly.
Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.
Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.
I'll have no husband, if you be not he.
JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.
Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither. Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather.
You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been acquainted with goldsmiths' wives and conned them out of rings?
O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.