From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.

Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.

Best fishing in troubled waters.

When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing; Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.

The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

When your hobby becomes your work, life automatically transforms into a never ending holiday

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.

I don't know what it is I exude. But whatever it is, it's whatever I am!

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are.

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!