I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

If music be the food of love, play on.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?