Search results for Late 1590s (Elizabethan era)

Don't cry over spilled milk.

Popular culture

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

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

Heavy is the head that wears the crown.

William Shakespeare