Quote of the Week

I’m on a roll with the old-fashioned insults. This month I’m going even further back in time to Shakespeare.

E'en so; a great deal of your wit too lies in your sinews, or else there be liars. Hector shall have a great catch an he knock out either of your brains: 'a were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel.”

From Troilus and Cressida, Act II, Scene I. Thercites insulting Achilles, telling him that most people claim Achilles’ intelligence lies in his muscles, and if Hector cracked open his and Ajax’s head, he’d find an empty shell.