Quotable Quotes: Shakespeare on our financial times
by Miki Saxon
Is Shakespeare still in fashion? I find his insights and commentary just as apropos today as when I first fell in love with his writing, wit and style back in high school.
No matter the subject, you can always find an elegant comment on it from the maestro.
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.” –Polonius, Hamlet (Back then the gentry were selling their estates bit by bit to maintain an ostentatious lifestyle in London. These days the gentry sell off our estates to support an ostentatious lifestyle globally. As is said, the more things change, the more they stay the same.)
“‘Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed,
When not to be receives reproach of being,
And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed
Not by our feeling, but by others’ seeing.
For why should others’ false adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?” –Sonnet 121 (In Wall Street speak there’s not a lot of difference between sex and money when you get right down to it.)
“Lord, what fools these mortals be” –Puck, Mid-summer’s Night’s Dream (This says it all—somewhere the gods are laughing.)
Hat tip to eNotes quote help.
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