Quote of the Day for 2016-09-29

"The grief that does not speak, Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break."

— William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Macbeth, act 4, scene 3 (1606)

Paul McCartney leaving the AIR Oxford Street studio shortly after the murder of John Lennon (December 9, 1980) Photograph by Paul Fievez

Quote of the Day for 2016-09-02

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come."

— William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Julius Caesar, act 2, scene 4 (1599)

Death and the Gravedigger by Carlos Schwabe (1895)

Quote of the Day for 2016-07-21

"The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he; His time is spent."

— William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Richard II, act 2, scene 1 (circa 1595)

Hope in a Prison of Despair by Evelyn De Morgan (1887)

Quote of the Day for 2016-06-27

"I have Immortal longings in me."

— William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, scene 2 (circa 1607)

Hylas and the Nymphs by John William Waterhouse (1896)

Quote of the Day for 2015-12-21

"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones."

— William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Julius Caesar, act 3, scene 2

Marlon Brando as Marc Antony (1953)