“Summer's lease hath all too short a date.”

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And too often is his gold complexion dimm'd: And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance or natures changing course untrimm'd; By thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.”

“Short summers lightly have a forward spring.”

“the time of life is short;To spend that shortness basely were too long.”

“Let life be short, else shame will be too long.”

“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm”

“Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”