William Shakespeare: Man

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.”

“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.”

“Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.”

“For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”

“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”

“Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough.”

“I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more, is none”

“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.”

“For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.”

“His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!”

“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”

“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.”

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”

“I am a man,
More sinn'd against than sinning.”

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.”