Rae Ginsberg

“Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1

“Tell me, sweet lord, what is ’t that takes from thee
Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden sleep?
Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth
And start so often when thou sit’st alone?
Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks
And given my treasures and my rights of thee
To thick-eyed musing and curst melancholy?”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1

“the time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely were too long.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1

“Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1