Quotes About Challenge

By heaven methinks it were an easy leapTo pluck bright honor from the pale-fac'd moon,Or dive into the bottom of the deep,Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,And pluck up drowned honor by the locks.

O! when degree is shaked,Which is the ladder to all high designs,The enterprise is sick.

This is the nightThat either makes me or fordoes me quite.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide;It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

William Shakespeare

We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it.

Let Hercules himself do what he may,The cat will mew and dog will have his day.

What man dare, I dare:Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;Take any shape but that, and my firm nervesShall never tremble.

Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.

It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?

Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back.

Over hill, over dale,Thorough bush, thorough brier,Over park, over pale,Thorough flood, thorough fire.

I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.

We see which way the stream of time doth runAnd are enforc'd from our most quiet sphereBy the rough torrent of occasion.

I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit, till I break my shins against it.

One writ with me in sour misfortune's book.

Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.

Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,To make a hazard of new fortunes here.

The beastWith many heads butts me away.

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

William Shakespeare

I'll put a girdle round about the earthIn forty minutes.

Full bravely hast thou flesh'dThy maiden sword.