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• Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself. -- William Shakespeare
• Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them.
  Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true....
• Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off
  And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind....
• As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate;" and the water, put nought in in malice.
  -- Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857) -- Shakespeare Grog...
• Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. -- William Shakespeare
• That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Antony and Cleopatra -- Act iv, Sc. 14...
• Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act iii, Sc. 2...
• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. French Proverb
• Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.
  Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up...