Quotes from William Shakespeare

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.

Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!

Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate.

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.

Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)

If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

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

There is a tide in the affairs of men

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.

When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.