Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.

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.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

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

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

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

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.