Gbanger's favorites, chosen by Gbanger

1. He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
       William Shakespeare   Best?
2. Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
       William Shakespeare   Best?
3. Exit, pursued by a bear.
       William Shakespeare   Best?
4. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
       William Shakespeare   Best?
5. Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
       William Shakespeare   Best?
6. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].
       William Shakespeare   Best?
7. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
       William Shakespeare   Best?
8. If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
       William Shakespeare   Best?
9. Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
       William Shakespeare   Best?
10. Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
11. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
12. This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
13. Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
14. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
15. Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
16. Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
17. The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
18. Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
19. Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
20. In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness, and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger, stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood...now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit to its full height!
        William Shakespeare   Best?
21. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
22. O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
23. We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
24. O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come!
        William Shakespeare   Best?
25. Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
26. Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
27. A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
28. How far that little candle throws his beams!
        William Shakespeare   Best?
29. The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
30. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
        William Shakespeare   Best?
31. At Christmas I no more desire a rose
        William Shakespeare   Best?
32. There is a tide in the affairs of men,
        William Shakespeare   Best?
33. And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
34. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
35. Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
36. To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
37. Brevity is the soul of wit.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
38. Tempt not a desperate man.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
39. Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
40. Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it [Denmark] is a prison.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
41. Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
42. It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
43. Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
44. Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
45. In time we hate that which we often fear.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
46. He is not great who is not greatly good.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
47. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
48. There is a history in all men's lives.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
49. False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
50. It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
51. Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
52. There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
53. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
54. Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
55. In false quarrels there is no true valor.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
56. Strong reasons make strong actions.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
57. Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
58. Gold is worse poison to a man's soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
59. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
60. We know what we are, but not what we may be.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
61. I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
62. I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest, for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
63. To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man
        William Shakespeare   Best?
64. All's well that ends well....
        William Shakespeare   Best?
65. O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
66. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
67. When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
68. Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
69. Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
70. Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
71. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
        William Shakespeare   Best?
72. Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
73. Men willingly believe what they wish.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
74. Veni, vidi, vici.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
75. Et tu, Brute.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
76. It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
77. I would fain die a dry death.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
78. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
79. What seest thou else
        William Shakespeare   Best?
80. I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
        William Shakespeare   Best?
81. Like one
        William Shakespeare   Best?
82. My library
        William Shakespeare   Best?
83. Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
        William Shakespeare   Best?
84. From the still-vexed Bermoothes.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
85. I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
86. Fill all thy bones with aches.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
87. Come unto these yellow sands,
        William Shakespeare   Best?
88. Full fathom five thy father lies;
        William Shakespeare   Best?
89. The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
90. There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
        William Shakespeare   Best?
91. A very ancient and fish-like smell.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
92. He that dies pays all debts.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
93. A kind
        William Shakespeare   Best?
94. Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
        William Shakespeare   Best?
95. Where the bee sucks, there suck I;
        William Shakespeare   Best?
96. Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
        William Shakespeare   Best?
97. Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
98. I have no other but a woman's reason:
        William Shakespeare   Best?
99. O, how this spring of love resembleth
        William Shakespeare   Best?
100. O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
101. That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
102. How use doth breed a habit in a man!
         William Shakespeare   Best?
103. Come not within the measure of my wrath.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
104. I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
105. It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
106. If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
107. Thou art the Mars of malcontents.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
108. Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
109. We burn daylight.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
110. Why, then the world's mine oyster,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
111. This is the short and the long of it.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
112. We have some salt of our youth in us.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
113. I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
114. Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
115. This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
116. Our doubts are traitors,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
117. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
118. The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
119. The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
120. Truth is truth
         William Shakespeare   Best?
121. They say, best men are moulded out of faults,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
122. What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
123. Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
124. He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
125. Friendship is constant in all other things
         William Shakespeare   Best?
126. Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
127. I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
128. A man in all the world's new fashion planted,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
129. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
130. They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
131. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
         William Shakespeare   Best?
132. For aught that I could ever read,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
133. Lord, what fools these mortals be!
         William Shakespeare   Best?
134. When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
135. My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
136. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
137. It is a wise father that knows his own child.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
138. The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
139. The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
140. Hereafter, in a better world than this,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
141. I met a fool i' the forest,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
142. True is it that we have seen better days.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
143. All the world's a stage,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
144. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
145. No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en;
         William Shakespeare   Best?
146. No legacy is so rich as honesty.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
147. Praising what is lost
         William Shakespeare   Best?
148. If music be the food of love, play on;
         William Shakespeare   Best?
149. If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
150. What's gone and what's past help
         William Shakespeare   Best?
151. Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
         William Shakespeare   Best?
152. This England never did, nor never shall,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
153. This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
154. If all the year were playing holidays,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
155. He hath eaten me out of house and home.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
156. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
157. There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
158. The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day
         William Shakespeare   Best?
159. And many strokes, though with a little axe,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
160. Now is the winter of our discontent
         William Shakespeare   Best?
161. An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
162. True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
         William Shakespeare   Best?
163. A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
         William Shakespeare   Best?
164. 'T is better to be lowly born,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
165. The end crowns all,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
166. Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
167. But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
         William Shakespeare   Best?
168. O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
         William Shakespeare   Best?
169. What's in a name? That which we call a rose
         William Shakespeare   Best?
170. This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
171. Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
172. A plague o' both your houses!
         William Shakespeare   Best?
173. Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
174. We have seen better days.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
175. Beware the ides of March.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
176. Let me have men about me that are fat,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
177. But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
178. Cowards die many times before their deaths;
         William Shakespeare   Best?
179. How many ages hence
         William Shakespeare   Best?
180. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
         William Shakespeare   Best?
181. For Brutus is an honourable man;
         William Shakespeare   Best?
182. And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
183. Yet do I fear thy nature;
         William Shakespeare   Best?
184. Is this a dagger which I see before me,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
185. The attempt and not the deed
         William Shakespeare   Best?
186. Double, double toil and trouble;
         William Shakespeare   Best?
187. By the pricking of my thumbs,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
188. Out, damned spot! out, I say!
         William Shakespeare   Best?
189. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
190. Lay on, Macduff,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
191. A little more than kin, and less than kind.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
192. Frailty, thy name is woman!
         William Shakespeare   Best?
193. He was a man, take him for all in all,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
194. Beware
         William Shakespeare   Best?
195. Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
         William Shakespeare   Best?
196. But to my mind, though I am native here
         William Shakespeare   Best?
197. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
198. Leave her to heaven
         William Shakespeare   Best?
199. Every man has business and desire,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
200. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
201. Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
202. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
         William Shakespeare   Best?
203. The devil hath power
         William Shakespeare   Best?
204. The play's the thing
         William Shakespeare   Best?
205. To be, or not to be: that is the question:
         William Shakespeare   Best?
206. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
207. I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
208. O, woe is me,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
209. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
210. Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
         William Shakespeare   Best?
211. O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
         William Shakespeare   Best?
212. I must be cruel, only to be kind:
         William Shakespeare   Best?
213. For 'tis the sport to have the engineer
         William Shakespeare   Best?
214. So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
215. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now; your gambols, your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
216. A hit, a very palpable hit.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
217. The rest is silence.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
218. Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:
         William Shakespeare   Best?
219. Although the last, not least.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
220. Nothing will come of nothing.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
221. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
         William Shakespeare   Best?
222. Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
223. The worst is not
         William Shakespeare   Best?
224. Pray you now, forget and forgive.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
225. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
         William Shakespeare   Best?
226. I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
         William Shakespeare   Best?
227. I am not merry; but I do beguile
         William Shakespeare   Best?
228. Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
229. Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
230. Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
231. O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
         William Shakespeare   Best?
232. He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
233. O, now, for ever
         William Shakespeare   Best?
234. I understand a fury in your words,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
235. 'Tis neither here nor there.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
236. My salad days,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
237. Small to greater matters must give way.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
238. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
         William Shakespeare   Best?
239. Since Cleopatra died,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
240. I have
         William Shakespeare   Best?
241. The game is up.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
242. No, 'tis slander,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
243. I have not slept one wink.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
244. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
         William Shakespeare   Best?
245. Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
246. Let me not to the marriage of true minds
         William Shakespeare   Best?
247. Cursed be he that moves my bones.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
248. O, I am slain!
         William Shakespeare   Best?
249. I like this place, and willingly would waste my time in it.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
250. To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
251. Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
252. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
253. What a deformed thief this fashion is.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
254. The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
255. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
         William Shakespeare   Best?
256. But love is blind and lovers cannot see
         William Shakespeare   Best?
257. Though inclination be as sharp as will,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
258. In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
259. Glory is like a circle in the water,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
260. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
261. When griping grief the heart doth wound,
         William Shakespeare   Best?
262. See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
263. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
264. I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
         William Shakespeare   Best?
265. Sweet are the uses of adver