William Shakespeare. He's an icon of English language literature, or so my college professors rhapsodized. Is he still relevant? Or is the inexorable linguistic evolution lessening the quotability of his words? I recall one fellow in an English class who said he somewhat liked Shakespeare's writing, but complained that the man used far too many cliches. Interesting day - I'll just say some teachers can overreact. Reading Julius Caesar in high school was part pleasure, part torture. When it takes a footnote to explain "This is a pun" I find the humor is lost. I recently looked at a website that gave Shakespears a rating of 78% as an author. He did better on quotations - somewhere in the high nineties. I have no idea where these percentages come from or how they are calculated. What W.S. quotes stand out in your mind? What is so rare as a day in June? Wise up, Willy. There are 30 of them every year. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Not if you live in Texas, because you’d end up using words like miserable, sticky, unbearable, and tiresome. What was it that professor said about the cliche comment? "Some of you were born to be literary Philistines"? Sorry, Willy, I love much of your work, but cannot say you're the greatest ever. But then, I'm not certain who is...