Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing; Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.

Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.

Best fishing in troubled waters.

When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]

The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

You can see clearly in sacred moment of light.

Everyone takes part in the mosque for one reason

I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.

It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

The storm is ended! The impartial sunLaughs down upon the battle lost and won,And crowns the triumph of the cloudy hostIn rolling lines retreating to the coast.

To give importance to trifling matters.

Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.