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Quotes of the Day for 23 April 2005 - William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was probably born at Stratford-upon-Avon on this day in 1564. At that time babies were generally baptized on the third day, and the records show this took place on the 26th. The Bard of Avon definitely died on this day in 1616. Shakespeare has had an important place in the hearts of quote collectors ever since John Bartlett published his original collection in 1855.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
     - Much Ado About Nothing

No profit grows where there is no pleasure ta'en.
     - The Taming of the Shrew

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
     - Julius Caesar

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;
For now hath time made me his numbering clock;
My thoughts are minutes.
     - Richard II

Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venemous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
     - As You Like It

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.
     - Hamlet

     - All from the plays of William Shakespeare

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