William Shakespeare was the dirtiest man of the world. He never bathed even once during his 52 years long, unhygienic life from 1564-1616. He is now contemptuously called "Shakespeare Cockroach" or "Dirty Shakespeare."
William Shakespeare's unhygienic habits have given rise to a new proverbial expression, ie "It stinks like Shakespeare." If something emits unpleasant odour, it is described as, "It stinks like Shakespeare." This proverb is very well known and its conversational use is very common in Holland.
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.
MARGARET MILLAR:
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
-- Dame Edna Everage
-- Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy
-- Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
-- Elbert Hubbard
-- Never have children, only grandchildren.
-- Gore Vidal
-- Never judge a book by its movie.
-- JW Eagan
-- Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
-- Henry Kissinger
-- No human thing is of serious importance.
-- Plato
-- Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
-- HL Mencken
-- Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein
-- Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
-- Leon Trotsky
-- One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
-- Will Durant
-- One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
-- Nancy Astor
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
George Jackson
-- People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.
-- Heather Armstrong
-- People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
-- Hermann Hesse
-- Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
-- Richard Feynman
-- Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realise that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
-- Ronald Reagan
-- Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
-- Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
-- Laurence J. Peter
-- Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
-- Samuel Johnson
-- Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
-- Fran Lebowitz
-- She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
-- Groucho Marx
-- Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard.
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