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.

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?]

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

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.

Remember the Morning Star, ” he enjoined. But I didn’t tell him about Tegg, whose face was the starry void itself...

The purpose of life is to live, learn, and love.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

I suppose we all have a lil' inner or outer a-hole inside of us, just waiting for the right opportunity to rear their own beautiful buttholes.

I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way.

So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.

Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.

There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

We learn most not from all of the things that go right. We learn most when everything goes wrong.

Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!