Category Archives: Best Shakespeare Quotes

It is almost a platitude but of all the quotes a speaker may use, Shakespeare’s carry the greater weight and the most recognizable authority. The site www.yourdailyshakespeare.com publishes regularly blogs taking one quote at a time and giving tips of how to use it, as well as the context of the quote and other information. Information mostly derived by the book “Your Daily Shakespeare”

Finding Shakespeare in Unusual Places

Posted on October 29, 2013 by jimmie

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch’d, unfledged comrade. (Hamlet 1.3) Relatively few people know of the War of 1812, even in the United States. Or rather they may know of the song “The Read More

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Shakespeare, Columbus Day & the Pledge of Allegiance

Posted on October 15, 2013 by jimmie

“Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. Our strong arms be our conscience, swords and law!” (King Richard III, act 5, sc.3) Each year, on or around the 12th of October, the United States  celebrate the discovery Read More

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Shakespeare on History of Man extended to Art

Posted on October 10, 2013 by jimmie

“There is a history in all men’s lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of Read More

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Shakespeare, Health Care and the Limits of Medicine

Posted on October 6, 2013 by jimmie

Whom worse than a physician Would this report become? But I consider, By medicine life may be prolong’d, yet death Will seize the doctor too. Cymbeline, act 5, sc. 5 For ordinary citizens it is difficult to understand the issues surrounding the so-called Obamacare plan, legislation or reform, however we may want to call it. Read More

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Shakespeare and Lies that Stretch to the Crack of Doom

Posted on September 9, 2013 by jimmie

Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe: Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should Read More

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American Football and Absurdity

Posted on September 5, 2013 by jimmie

“This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,–often the surfeit of our own behavior,–we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; … an admirable evasion Read More

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Shakespeare, Money and Politics

Posted on August 30, 2013 by jimmie

“… And though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.” Winter’s Tale act 4, sc. 3   Following is the transcription of a message left on the telephone recorder of a lobbyist by a prominent US Congresswoman. For our international visitors, the matter is perfectly legal. A Read More

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Shakespeare and Bradley Manning’s Trial. What The Defense Should Have Said

Posted on August 26, 2013 by jimmie

“If that be right which Warwick says is right, There is no wrong, but everything is right.” (King Henry VI part 3, act 2, sc. 2) The trial of BC Manning has ended and the Defense Counsel did what he thought his best. I have now received an anonymous hand-written document proposing another line of Read More

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Shakespeare and the Wages of Imperialism

Posted on August 22, 2013 by jimmie

“… this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison’d chalice To our own lips” Macbeth, act 1, sc. 7 Who could still have doubts about the infamy of imperialism may examine the recent history of the Middle East. Some may still remember the war of 1991,

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Shakespeare – Wars, Sex, Bikinis and Democracy

Posted on August 17, 2013 by jimmie

… wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion: a burning devil take them! (Troilus and Cressida, act 5, sc. 2) Forest Grove is a suburb of the (unfortunately) sprawling greater Portland (Oregon). And while America has established (imposed) 140 military bases in Italy, Americans have developed a taste for Italian espresso in their home land. Read More

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