As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
William ShakespeareRead
For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the unpredictable and frivolous nature of humanity.
William Shakespeare's observation highlights the whimsical and often irrational behavior of humans. By stating that 'man is a giddy thing,' he suggests that our actions can sometimes be frivolous or driven by fleeting emotions, leading to complex conclusions about our nature and existence.
In practice
In a discussion about the unpredictability of life, I quoted Shakespeare: 'For man is a giddy thing.'
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!
Give it an understanding, but no tongue.
Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we happy?' 'When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.' 'What is regret?' 'To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.' 'What is sorrow?' 'To long for the past.' 'What is the highest pleasure?' 'To hear a good story.
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child.
The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
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