William Shakespeare

I am not an ass, though I wear a fool's coat.

The better part of valour is discretion.

Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I am not in the roll of common men.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

I bear a charmed life.

The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

What's done cannot be undone.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.