Zitat des Tages von John Webster:
Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
All things do help the unhappy man to fall.
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.