Date: 1600

"I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow, / By his best arrow with the golden head, / By the simplicity of Venus' doves, / By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves, / And by that fire which burned the Carthage queen / When the false Trojan under sail was seen."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet / Are of imagination all compact."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"Your mind is tossing on the ocean"

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"Shut doors after you. / Fast bind, fast find -- / A proverb never stale in thrifty mind."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"How many cowards whose hearts are all as false / As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins / The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, / Who, inward searched, have livers white as milk?"

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"The painter plays the spider, and hath woven / A golden mesh t' untrap the hearts of men / Faster than gnats in cobwebs."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"Thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture, / But, touched with human gentleness and love, / Forgive a moiety of the principal, / Glancing an eye of pity on his losses, / That have of late so huddled on his back / Enough to press a royal merchant down / And pluck commiseration of his state / From b...

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"[F]or in companions / That do converse and waste the time together, / Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love, / There must be needs a like proportion / Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew, / Thou mak'st thy knife keen."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)