An idle wind blew round an empty throne
    And stirred the heavy curtains on the walls.

Failure by Rupert Brooke

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Soothsayer. Beware the Ides of March

CAESAR. What man is that?
BRUTUS. A Sooth-sayer bids you beware the Ides of March
CAESAR. Set him before me, let me see his face

CASSIUS. Fellow, come from the throng, look vpon Caesar

CAESAR. What sayst thou to me now? Speak once againe,
Soothsayer. Beware the Ides of March

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream.

“She carried this eighty-five pound press in her hands and a flashlight in her teeth?”

The Case of the Deadly Toy by Erle Stanley Gardner

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“It is better to have people think you a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
- Mark Twain

Love, everlasting.


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“Fondling,” she saith, “since I have hemm'd thee here
Within the circuit of this ivory pale,
I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer;
Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale:
Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry,
Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.”

Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare

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