Seven Ages of Man, take 3, the Lover

Posted on June 8, 2012 by jimmie

and then the lover, sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad“… And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad,
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow” (As You Like It, act 3, sc. 2))

Tips for use. Sighs and ballads dedicated to the mistress’ eyebrow are but two of a multitude of symptoms attributable to love. Robert Burton (1577 – 1640), a contemporary of William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) wrote the monumental “The Anatomy of Melancholy”, described as the greatest medical treatise written by a layman. In the book, Burton dedicates… Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on Ambition, Upstarts, Lowliness as Ambition’s Ladder

Posted on June 7, 2012 by jimmie

lowliness is young ambition's ladder“…’tis a common proof,
That lowliness is young ambition’s    ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.” (Julius Caesar act 2., sc.1)

Tips for use.  Sadly, a common occurrence with people who, often due to quite fortuitous circumstances acquire either wealth or positions of influence. Good lines to tease a friend who has become important and now does not want to acknowledge you or help you in some way. The first two lines could be the beginning of your answer (during a job interview), to the question,… Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on People who are Always Late and have no Concept of Time

Posted on June 6, 2012 by jimmie

Travels travels in divers paces with divers persons“Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. “ (As You Like It act 3, sc. 2)

Tips for use.  Ironic or sarcastic remark on a person who is habitually and notoriously late. It can be directly attributable to a live person or it could be included in a presentation or lecture to describe a character from history or literature. Or apply it to yourself in a mild self-effacing tone if you happen to be late for an appointment and time slipped by without your being aware of it. Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on Ecofriendly Living According to Nature

Posted on June 5, 2012 by jimmie

Best Shakespeare Quote for Living according toNnature “And this, our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.” (As You Like It act 2, sc.1)

Tips for use.  What better way to praise a life of simple pleasures and relaxation, bucking the incitement to incessant and unstoppable consumption and the fever for more and more. Accomplices the corporate media and the society of the spectacle. Excellent introduction… Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on the Difference between Theory and Practice

Posted on June 3, 2012 by jimmie

The Merchant of Venice, if to do were as easy as to know... “If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces – it is a good divine that follows his own instructions.” (Merchant of Venice act 1, sc. 2)

Tips for use.  Encapsulation of an unavoidable truth – knowing what needs to be done but falling out at the time of implementation. Which is but one of the reasons for being skeptical of “miraculous” systems or methods that promise spectacular results based on the charisma of the instructor. In fact Portia Continue reading →

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Seven Ages of Man, take 2, the Whining Schoolboy

Posted on June 2, 2012 by jimmie

the whining schoolboy best Shakespeare quote“Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining-morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school” (As You Like It, act 2, sc. 7)

Tips for use.  Applicable to any boy of school age who is reluctant to go to school. He may not be completely wrong. For one, check the blog about Caliban and Prospero (Shakespeare and the Drawbacks of Education). Useful also to remember Ambrose Bierce’s take on the issue, “Education, That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.” Without taking into account that poking fu Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on Retirement and Retirement Speeches

Posted on June 2, 2012 by jimmie

 shakespeare for the perfect retirement speech“…and ‘tis our fast intent
To shake all cares and business from our age,
Conferring them on younger strengths, while we
Unburdened crawl towards death.” (King Lear, act 1, sc.1)

Tips for use.  Perfect opening for a retirement speech, a bit rough at the end but realistic. With a gentler touch Oliver Goldsmith says,
O, blest retirement! friend to life’s decline –
How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on Music as the Food of Love

Posted on June 1, 2012 by jimmie

If music be the food of love“If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting
The appetite may sicken and so die. (Twelfth Night act 1, sc. 1)

Tips for use. Answer to ‘Would you like to listen to some music?’ in a romantic setting. Music occupies the void that words cannot fill. Though not everyone has held the same favorable attitude on the matter. It had a bad effect on the virtues of ladies, especially if they were inclined to poetry.  In “The Anatomie of Abuse”, Philip Stubbes (1583-1591) writes, Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on Madness, Love and Poetry

Posted on May 31, 2012 by jimmie

The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet“The lunatic, the lover and the poet,
Are of imagination all compact.
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them into shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.” (Midsummer Night’s Dream, act 5, sc. 1)

Tips for use.  These famous lines lend themselves to a variety of applications. For example, if she says, “Are you mad?” after you have made a suggestion shocking or amusing enough to prompt the question counter with “The lunatic, the lover and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
Alternatively, this is also a good answer to the question, “What do you do for a living?”, Continue reading →

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Shakespeare on Dreams, Children of an Idle Brain

Posted on May 30, 2012 by jimmie

Dreams childfren of an idle brain“… I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air
And more inconstant than the wind” (Romeo and Juliet act 1, sc. 4)

Tips for use. Excellent line to contest and state your opposition to an unrealistic project or to unrealistic expectations, e.g. “These are but dreams….idle brain.”
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