Shakespeare on wise fathers

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." -- William Shakespeare, via "By Ken Levine > Happy Father's Day"

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"Summer’s lease hath all too short a date." — William Shakespeare

"How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
-- William Shakespeare

"Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak." -- William Shakespeare

"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain." -- William Shakespeare, via email from Carla

Truth | "Truth hath a quiet breast." — William Shakespeare

"Happy thou art not;
For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get;
And what thou hast, forgett'st."
-- William Shakespeare

"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy if I could say how much." -- William Shakespeare

"Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war." -- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1, via Dog News

"For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings." -- William Shakespeare

April | "April hath put a spirit of youth in everything." -- William Shakespeare

"I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here;
Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear,
The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood
Which breathed this poison."
-- William Shakespeare, via Bene Diction Blogs On!

"There is no darkness but ignorance." -- William Shakespeare

"Mind your speech a little
Lest you should mar your fortunes."
-- William Shakespeare

"If to do were as easy to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces." -- William Shakespeare

"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" -- Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, III, i

"Life's but a walking shadow
a player poor
that struts and frets upon the stage
and's seen no more
A tale that truly has an idiotic ring
That's full of lotsa sound and fury
signifying nothing..."

-- William Shakespeare, from Macbeth