"The fear's as bad as falling...." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“If thou wilt lend this money, lend it notAs to thy friends; for when did friendship takeA breed for barren metal of his friend?”

“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. *Here’s what love is: a smoke made out of lovers' sighs. When the smoke clears, love is a fire burning in your lover’s eyes. If you frustrate love, you get an ocean made out of lovers' tears. What else is love? It’s a wise form of madness. It’s a sweet lozenge that you choke on.*”

“A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.”

“What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality.”

“Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.”

“Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.”

“Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep.”

“The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!”

“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”