Contrary proverbs

Seven Brilliant Quotes

Shakespeare's Sayings We Use Nowadays

William Shakespeare is regarded as the world's supreme dramatist. His impact on the English language was so great that even after four centuries, we still use some of his phrases. While he may not have been the first to utter these words; he certainly popularised them well beyond his years.
We've listed some below, together with the plays they appeared in.

Taken from:  http://www.englishforums.com/content/resources/shakespeare-s-sayings-we-use-nowadays.htm

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• We have seen better days. - As You Like It

• Knock knock! Who's there? - Macbeth
• Break the ice. - The Taming of the Shrew
• Makes your hair stand on end. - Hamlet
• The game is up. - Cymbeline
• Love is blind - The Merchant of Venice
• Wild goose chase. - Romeo & Juliet
• Come what may. - Macbeth
• Wear your heart on your sleeve. - Othello
• What's done is done. - Macbeth
• Fight fire with fire. - King John
• Sweets to the sweet. - Hamlet
• Out of the jaws of death. - The Taming of the Shrew
• I'll not budge an inch. - The Taming of the Shrew
• To be, or not to be, that is the question. - Hamlet
• The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. - King Henry the Sixth, Part II
• Nothing will come of nothing. - King Lear
• Fair play. - The Tempest
• Forever and a day. - As You Like It
• Men of few words - King Henry the Fifth
• The course of true love - A Midsummer Night's Dream

Teachers

• “Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.”
• An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Carl Jung
• "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." - Galielo Galilei
• “Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.” John F. Kennedy 
• “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William A. Ward 
• “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” Lilly Tomlin 
• "Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark." - Anatole France
• "A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." - Thomas Carruthers
• "Give me a fish and I eat for a day.  Teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime." - Chinese Proverb
• "If the child is not learning the way you are teaching, then you must teach in the way the child learns" Rita Dunn
• The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.  
• A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe,
  and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.Newton D. Baker

Friendship

• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. (Carl Jung)
• Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.(O.Holmes)

Freedom

• Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself (Mahatma Gandhi)
• Only the educated are free. (Epictetus) 
• Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. (Patricia Sampson)
• To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom us. (Kierkergaard)

Women

• “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”  (Robert A. Heinlein)
•  “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” (Virginia Woolf)
•  "No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.” (Elizabeth Peters)
•  “The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.” (Yves Saint-Laurent)
•  "A woman should soften but not weaken a man" (Sigmund Freud)

Love

• “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” (Dr. Seuss)
•  “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.” (E. Wiesel) 
• “You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.” (Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception)
•   “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” (Dr. Seuss)
•   “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” (Anaïs Nin)