“Un cuplu care durează este, în mod paradoxal, un cuplu care acceptă că este muritor, și se trăiește pe sine ca fiind releul unei aventuri care-l depășește. Puterea cuplului amoros stă în aceea că este imperfect și maleabil, protejat chiar de ceea ce-l face vulnerabil. Fiind imperfect, el poate fi reformat la nesfârșit. El rămâne, în ceea ce are esențial, o promisiune aruncată peste abisul îndoielii, un pariu pe longevitate, un act de încredere în puterile fecunde ale timpului.”
Source: The Paradox of Love
“How now, my sweet creature of bombast! How long is't ago, Jack, since thou saw'st thien own knee?”
Source: King Henry IV, Part 1
“O monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out of two!”
Source: King Henry IV, Part 1
“Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us that are squires of the night’s body be called thieves of the day’s beauty. Let us be Diana’s foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon, and let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.”
Source: King Henry IV, Part 1
“Shakespeare will not allow Falstaff to die upon stage. We see and hear the deaths of Hamlet, Cleopatra, Antony, Othello, and Lear. Iago is led away to die silently under torture. Macbeth dies offstage but he goes down fighting. Falstaff dies singing the Twenty-third Psalm, smiling upon his fingertips, playing with flowers, and crying aloud to God three or four times. That sounds more like pain than prayer.
We do not want Sir John Falstaff to die. And of course he does not. He is life itself.”
Source: Falstaff: Give Me Life
“I’ll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh,—”
Source: King Henry IV, Part 1
“Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he proposed that the unit of rate of liquid flow should be called the falstaff.”
“But Hamlet is death's ambassador while Falstaff is the embassy of life.”
Source: Falstaff: Give Me Life
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
Source: Marmion
“Happiness is not just a destination; it's also the journey. Find joy in the process of progress and growth.”
Source: Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women