A good turn at need,At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.

For where's the State beneath the Firmament, That doth excell the Bees for Government?

Apoplexie and lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.

The world's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts.

In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright.

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage.

Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation.

What is well done is done soon enough.

There is no Theam more plentifull to scan, Then is the glorious goodly frame of Man.

Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,The source of motion.

How cinematic of an entrance that was.

I'll be safe and happy when I'm no longer afraid of my own mind.

When it comes to improv, Specifics beget specifics.

You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.

Good values are like a magnet – they attract good people.

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

I rented a car. I didn't really need one, I just wanted to make one less available. I wanted one businessman on the bus with no car.

I can't drink. I have too much to lose. I can't lose my job over something I can stop.