Episode 13 September 28, 2004

The quote to guess in this episode was:
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and
ill go together: our virtues would be proud, if our
faults whipped them not, and our crimes would
despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues

Answer: [All's Well that Ends Well]

The quote to guess in the last episode was:
"If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;
If not, why then, this parting was well made

The previous episode's quote comes from Julius Caesar. Brutus says farewell to Cassius before they part to take their position at the final decisive battle of Philippi against the forces of Antony and Octavian.

Show Segments and Some Quotes in the Current Episode

Season's References
"Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;
And after summer evermore succeeds
Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:
So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet."

    * On Harvest's Fests, October Fests and drinking

"……a quart of ale is a dish for a king." (Winter's Tale)

"…I have very poor and
unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish
courtesy would invent some other custom of
entertainment." (Antony and Cleopatra)

"It’s monstrous labor when I wash my brain
And it grows fouler." (Antony and Cleopatra)

"O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasure, revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts!" (Othello)

""Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it." (Othello)

" (I am) one that loves a cup wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in't" (Coriolanus)

PORTER. …and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.
MACDUFF. What three things does drink especially provoke?
PORTER. Marry sir, nose-painting, sleep and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes: it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. (Macbeth)

 

Introducing the Magic Words of George W. segment

"O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene" (K. Henry V)

"Here is an old abusing of God's patience, and the king's English." (Merry Wives of Windsor)

"..His reasons are as two
grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you
shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you
have them, they are not worth the search." (Merchant of Venice)

"….. for cogitation
Resides not in that man that does not think it." (Winter's Tale)

Segment "Living Enrichment (of Whom)"

"When every feather sticks in his own wing,
Lord Timon will be left a naked gull,
Which flashes now a phoenix." (Timon of Athens)

"Promising is the very air o' the
time: it opens the eyes of expectation:
performance is ever the duller for his act;
…….. To promise is
most courtly and fashionable: performance is a kind
of will or testament which argues a great sickness
in his judgment that makes it." (Timon of Athens)

Segment 'Terrorism and Revolution'
"This will last out a night in Russia,
When nights are longest there."
Measure for Measure, act 2, scene 1.

            "My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
                And every tongue brings in a several tale,
                And every tale condemns me for a villain"
             King Richard III, act 5, scene 3.

            "…there ‘s no more valour in that Poins (read Cheney), than in a wild duck."
                King Henry IV, part 1, act 2, scene 2.
           
            "A staff is quickly found to beat a dog."
                King Henru VI, part 2, act 3 scene 1.

            "And my more having would be as a sauce
                To make me hunger more."
                Macbeth, act 4, scene 3.

                "Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out
                In sharing that which you have pill'd from me!"
               King Richard III, act 1, scene 3.

                " .. O, it is excellent
                  To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
               To use it like a giant."
                Measure for Measure, act 2, scene 2.

                For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
                The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
                The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
                The insolence of office and the spurns
                That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
                When he himself might his quietus make
                With a bare bodkin?"
             Hamlet, act 3, scene 1.

                " .. I must excuse
                What cannot be amended."
                 Coriolanus, act 4, scene 7.

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