slings, arrows, and worn-out shoes

"How come you treat me like a worn out shoe"
is the phrase which recurs in my mind after reviewing Hank Williams music....

"...and say sweet nothings like you used to coo"...

"Why don't you say the things you used to say,
what makes you treat me like a piece of clay"...

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"I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it."
-- William Shakespeare, from As You Like It

A review of Hank Williams songs generally leads to a consideration of the writings of Shakespeare --

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
-- All's Well That Ends Well

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
-- A Midsummer Night's Dream

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
-- As You Like It

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves."
-- Julius Caesar

"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!"

"This above all:  to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
-- Hamlet

"Be not afraid of greatness.  Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
-- Twelfth Night

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts...."

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
-- Hamlet

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."
-- The Merchant of Venice

"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew."

"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
-- The Tempest

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come."
-- Julius Caesar

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
-- A Midsummer Night's Dream

"To be, or not to be:  that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them?
-- Hamlet

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