Showing posts with label William Shakespeare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Shakespeare. Show all posts

April 23, 2017

William Shakespeare's Day



“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
“This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

April 1, 2015

Wednesday Writing Wisdom (1)



“And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothings a local habitation and a name.”


William Shakespeare

Curious facts about:


Present day  English language owes much to William Shakespeare. Words like fashionable, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, countless, eyeball, lackluster first appeared within his writings.


After approximately 884,421 words & 34,895 speeches written across 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 other poems, Shakespeare passed away at the age of 52 on his own birthday April 23rd, 1616, or so we think.


One of William’s plays Cardenio was lost in time. We know it was performed in England but no known copies survive today.