Learn Through Quotations

“Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime.”

“When we are born, we cry that we are come, To this great stage of fools.”

“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”

“Life is a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale, Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”

“All the world's a stage, And all the men and merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.”

“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”

“Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.”

“O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.”

“And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.”