Tuesday, May 19, 2015

There’s a quotemark in my lunch!


What a quotatious day I had. First there was lunch at a salad buffet where my radishes were shaped like quotation marks or speech bubbles! And after work I relaxed by flipping on the TV to a rerun of The Middle, and it turned out to be the episode (S3,E6) in which Brick repeatedly quotes Shakespeare. Ahhh, some days are just better than others.

a quoting radish


“I do remember him... like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring. When ’a was naked, he was for all the world like a fork’d radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.” ~William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II  [III, 2, Falstaff]

“My salad days,
When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,
To say as I said then! But, come, away;
Get me ink and paper...”
~William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra  [I, 5, Cleopatra]

“’Twas a good lady, ’twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb.” ~William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well  [IV, 5, Lafeu]

And, as if life couldn’t get much sweeter, while trying to find an appropriate quotation for this blog entry I happened upon a book from the 1800s, The Plant-lore and Garden-craft of Shakespeare by H. N. Ellacombe, in which the quotes are all related to gardening, plants, and flowers. What a find!