Search results for Ancient Greece—4th century BCE

I must be cruel only to be kind; thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

William Shakespeare

Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

I will praise any man that will praise me.

William Shakespeare

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.

William Shakespeare

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.

William Shakespeare

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

William Shakespeare

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

William Shakespeare

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare