I think a thread like this would be a good idea: Give us something to ponder as we conduct our business on the forums; whenever you find a good quote just go ahead and dump it here. I'll go ahead and start. And whom better to start with than Shakespeare? Ok so, Henry IV pt. 2, Falstaff has just finished a conversation with his page and then the Lord Chief Justice approaches him about some old legal matters and at one point Falstaff makes a remark about being young and the Lord Chief Justice misunderstands what he means and says Falstaff you're not young on the contrary you're decrepitly old:
Lord Chief Justice- "Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?"
Not thought provoking at all but I find it beautifully put and funny. It was ROFL the first time I encountered this.
And for the philosophically inclined I offer you my favorite sonnet:
They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow,
They rightly do inherit heaven’s graces
And husband nature’s riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others but stewards of their excellence.
The summer’s flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.- sonnet 94
Lord Chief Justice- "Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?"
Not thought provoking at all but I find it beautifully put and funny. It was ROFL the first time I encountered this.
And for the philosophically inclined I offer you my favorite sonnet:
They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow,
They rightly do inherit heaven’s graces
And husband nature’s riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others but stewards of their excellence.
The summer’s flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.- sonnet 94
The only one of his I've read all the way through without falling asleep is one of his Pirx the Pilot compilations.
