Tuesday, May 13, 2003 :::
Culture Corner
I've basically just been babbling about school lately, and with yesterday's poop-laden entry, I figured it was time to bring some culture into this thing. Here's a list of common, hackeneyed expressions, that were either invented, first written down, or popularized by William Shakespeare.
"Fight till the last gasp." -- King Henry VI, Part 1, I, ii, 127.
"The better part of valor is discretion." -- King Henry IV, Part 1, V, vi, 120.
"He hath eaten me out of house and home." -- King Henry IV, Part 2, II, ii, 82.
"I bear a charmed life." -- Macbeth, V, vii, 41.
"Not a mouse stirring." -- Hamlet, I, i, 10.
"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me." -- Julius Caesar, I, ii, 288.
"Then westward-ho!" -- Twelfth Night, III, i, 122.
A Bonus from John Milton:
"All hell broke loose." -- Paradise Lost, l. 918.
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Sometimes someone will ask me if I'm going to a movie or a concert or some other event and I'll answer "If someone wants to buy my ticket, come pick me up and usher me to my reserved seat, sure I'll go." Like everything, if Shakespeare didn't say it first and better, then Samuel Johnson did:
"Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see."
--- Samuel Johnson, from James Boswell, Life of Johnson.
::: posted by tom at 10:04 PM
