Quote of the Day (William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, With Advice for a Hotheaded Leader)

"Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot

That it do singe yourself."—English playwrights William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and John Fletcher (1579–1625), Henry VIII (1613)

Boy, just when you think The Bard’s time came and went centuries ago and he doesn’t have anything to say to us, you come across something like this…

And these lines, from the Prologue to Henry VIII, may be even more pertinent to our present reality:

“I come no more to make you laugh: things now,

That bear a weighty and a serious brow,

Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe,

Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow,

We now present. Those that can pity, here

May, if they think it well, let fall a tear;

The subject will deserve it.”