Search results for The Elizabethan era (1558–1603)

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Voltaire

Honesty is the best policy.

Benjamin Franklin

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Popular culture

Where words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Andersen

All that glitters is not gold.

William Shakespeare

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Oscar Wilde

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

Heavy is the head that wears the crown.

William Shakespeare

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.

Emily Dickinson

To wear one's heart on one's sleeve.

William Shakespeare