Shakespeare - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56115<![CDATA[What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56108<![CDATA[I would fain die a dry death. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56109<![CDATA[Unless experience be a jewel. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56110<![CDATA[O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. -Measure ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56111<![CDATA[At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56112<![CDATA[Thou art the Mars of malcontents. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56113<![CDATA[Most forcible Feeble. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56114<![CDATA[Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56104<![CDATA[Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56105<![CDATA[-Fer. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56106<![CDATA[I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56107<![CDATA[Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56103<![CDATA[A very ancient and fish-like smell. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56095<![CDATA[Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56096<![CDATA[My library Was dukedom large enough. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56097<![CDATA[Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56098<![CDATA[From the still-vexed Bermoothes. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56099<![CDATA[I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56100<![CDATA[Fill all thy bones with aches. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56101<![CDATA[Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist. -The ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56102<![CDATA[He that dies pays all debts. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56090<![CDATA[A kind Of excellent dumb discourse. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56091<![CDATA[The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56092<![CDATA[There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56093<![CDATA[-Gon. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56094<![CDATA[That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56081<![CDATA[-Serv. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56082<![CDATA[A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, And harsh in sound to thine. -Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56083<![CDATA[Chaste as the icicle That 's curdied by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple. -Coriolanus. Act ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56084<![CDATA[Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie. -The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56085<![CDATA[Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. -The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56086<![CDATA[With foreheads villanous low. -The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56087<![CDATA[Deeper than did ever plummet sound I 'll drown my book. -The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56088<![CDATA[Deeper than e'er plummet sounded. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56089<![CDATA[Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute shall? -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56078<![CDATA[Enough, with over-measure. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56079<![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56080<![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56072<![CDATA[Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56073<![CDATA[Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56074<![CDATA[A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56075<![CDATA[Many-headed multitude. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56076<![CDATA[I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56077<![CDATA[Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. -Troilus ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56064<![CDATA[The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56065<![CDATA[All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56066<![CDATA[Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56067<![CDATA[One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56068<![CDATA[And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56069