I have no other but a woman's reason:

I think him so, because I think him so.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act i. Sc. 2.

If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin'd,

The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind!

Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name,

See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame!

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 281.

Though man a thinking being is defined,

Few use the grand prerogative of mind.

How few think justly of the thinking few!

How many never think, who think they do!

Jane Taylor (1783-1824): Essays in Rhyme. (On Morals and Manners. Prejudice.) Essay i. Stanza 45.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,

Falling like dew upon a thought, produces

That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 88.

Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round,

Where'er his stages may have been,

May sigh to think he still has found

The warmest welcome at an inn.

William Shenstone (1714-1763): Written on a Window of an Inn.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear;

Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,

And trifles life.

Edward Young (1684-1765): Love of Fame. Satire vi. Line 208.

Think of that, Master Brook.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.

She is pretty to walk with,

And witty to talk with,

And pleasant, too, to think on.

Sir John Suckling (1609-1641): Brennoralt. Act ii.

Who dares think one thing, and another tell,

My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 412.

Be lowly wise:

Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 173.

Let those that merely talk and never think,

That live in the wild anarchy of drink.

Ben Jonson (1573-1637): Underwoods. An Epistle, answering to One that asked to be sealed of the Tribe of Ben.

Count that day lost whose low descending sun

Views from thy hand no worthy action done.

Author unknown.

None think the great unhappy but the great.

Edward Young (1684-1765): Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 238.

They never taste who always drink;

They always talk who never think.

Matthew Prior (1664-1721): Upon a passage in the Scaligerana.

For just experience tells, in every soil,

That those that think must govern those that toil.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Traveller. Line 372.

Is there no bright reversion in the sky

For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 9.

When I consider life, 't is all a cheat.

Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit;

Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay.

To-morrow's falser than the former day;

Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest

With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.

Strange cozenage! none would live past years again,

Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain;

And from the dregs of life think to receive

What the first sprightly running could not give.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Aurengzebe. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Who think too little, and who talk too much.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 534.

Well, honour is the subject of my story.

I cannot tell what you and other men

Think of this life; but, for my single self,

I had as lief not be as live to be

In awe of such a thing as I myself.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act i. Sc. 2.