“Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.”

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

Make a virtue of necessity.

Great peace is found in little busy-ness.

Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.

The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.

A love grown old is not the love once new.

There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.

Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.

One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.

If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.

Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.

There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One’s Inability to attain One’s Heart’s Desire-The Other Is To Have It!

Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.

Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death.

Some men’s desires are without limits.

it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.