عبير,
Well, Abeer. Thank you for fixing the topic.  

Thy quote is realy famous and nice. We are waiting for more quotes from you.

Ok now, Since Abeer has quoted from Shakespeare, I'll  also quote from one of his plays. My quote is from his tragic play Titus Andronicus. Titus has a daughter named Lavinia. Her uncle brings her  but without arms or tongue. Some one has cut them. Not only that, she is also raped by the same person.

One may ask why Shakespeare is a great playwright. Shakespeare is great because he challenges himself. He invent very tragic situations like the situation here. If you were Shakespeare, what would you put in the mouth of Marcus, Titus' brother?
According to Shakespeare, the more difficult the situation is, the more simple the words are.

Now Marcus enters, carrying Lavinia in his hands, and says,


Marcus Andronicus:
Titus, prepare thy aged eyes to weep;
Or, if not so, thy noble heart to break:
I bring consuming sorrow to thine age.
[. . .]
Marcus Andronicus:
This was thy daughter.

Marcus asks Titus to prepare his eyes to cry, and if he is not able to prepare them, he asks him to prepare his heart to break; as if the second is easier than the first.

Marcus is NOT crying her, but rather the words are crying.
I love Shakespeare.

 
Thank you so much Maher. God Bless You !  

Now I come to short stories. The following "short short" story, as our professor Muayyad Jajo says, is from book about fables. The short short story is written in the form of verse. It is very nice, we can learn a lesson from it. And here you are :

The Lion Going to War

 The Lion had an enterprise in hand;
   Held a war-council, sent his provost-marshal,
   And gave the animals a call impartial
 Each, in his way, to serve his high command.
 The Elephant should carry on his back
 The tools of war, the mighty public pack,
 And fight in elephantine way and form;
 The Bear should hold himself prepared to storm;
 The Fox all secret stratagems should fix;
 The Monkey should amuse the foe by tricks.
 "Dismiss," said one, "the blockhead Asses,
   And Hares, too cowardly and fleet."
 "No," said the King; "I use all classes;
   Without their aid my force were incomplete.
 The Ass shall be our trumpeter, to scare
 Our enemy.  And then the nimble Hare
 Our royal bulletins shall homeward bear."

   A monarch provident and wise
 Will hold his subjects all of consequence,
   And know in each what talent lies.
 There's nothing useless to a man of sense.

Nice, isn't it?

It is I, Ala'

 
عبير,  

Thank You Abeer, Your quote is nice. I liked it so much.

New one:

"A badly written book is only a blunder. A bad translation of a good book is a crime."
It is said by Gilbert Highet, qtd in Comparative Literature: Method and Perspective

 


Yes, I do Agree with this statement. Thanx Abeer

Soledad,  


Thank You Soledad for your participation; it is also noice

New One:

 

 
Anonymous, but it is qtd in An Introduction to Language.

 
"My love for him is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it as winter changes the trees"
was said by Cathreine
Wuthering Heights
Odysseus,