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

William Shakespeare · Spoken by the jester Touchstone in As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 1.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep. The more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare · Juliet to Romeo on the balcony in Act 2 Scene 2, when he asks her to exchange love's vow with him.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

William Shakespeare · Polonius's parting advice to his son Laertes.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare · Spoken by Lucio to Isabella in Act I, Scene iv.

More Wisdom Quotes

I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.

Albert Einstein · From a 1940 draft letter to his friend the physicist Philipp Frank; the shared "Love is a better teacher than duty" is a shortening, and the bracketed gloss is the editor's.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Attributed to Oscar Wilde · Recorded by Harold Mellor, a friend who travelled with Wilde in 1898 to 1900, and printed only in 1949 in the Marquess of Queensberry's Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas; Quote Investigator finds it plausible but resting on one man's memory half a century on.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin · An aphorism from the second collection of the Glamour editor's "Neurotic's Notebook" sayings.

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

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep. The more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.”

“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.”

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

“I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”