"Fat paunches have lean pates; and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits."

"Biron: What is the end of study? let me know. King: Why, that to know, which else we should not know. Biron: Things h…"

"Come on, then; I will swear to study so, To know the thing I am forbid to know: As thus,—to study where I well may di…"

"Or having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it, and not break my troth."

"Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore …"

"Biron: Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun, That will not be deep-search’d with saucy looks: Small have continual…"

"At Christmas I no more desire a rose, Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled shows; But like of each thing that in sea…"

"So study evermore is overshot: While it doth study to have what it would, It doth forget to do the thing it should; A…"

"A man in all the world’s new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain."

"Our court shall be a little Academe, Still and contemplative in living art."