Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
| "To be, or not to be,--that is the question:--whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?" | William Shakespeare | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark |  |
| "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." | William Shakespeare | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | |
| "O that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!" | William Shakespeare | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | |
| All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever present perils of life. | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | |
| "Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables." | William Shakespeare | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | |
| The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | |
| "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." | William Shakespeare | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | |
| "Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!" | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | |
| "Neither a borrower nor a lender be: for loan oft loses both itself and friend;
and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry." | William Shakespeare | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | |
| "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." | William Shakespeare | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | |
