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Newsgroup Poster

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Sep 8, 2003, 4:57:35 PM9/8/03
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Hello, All!

Can anyone provide a source or hyperlink to the following quotes by
Mark Twain and Shakespeare, respectively? Actually, I don't remember
the quotes exactly, and am paraphrasing, though I don't believe I'm
changing the meanings in the slightest...I really do seem to recall
having chanced upon these lines, but cannot for the life of me find
their exact source!


THANKS IN ADVANCE!


Mark Twain: "No man knows himself truly who does not hate himself" (or
something to that effect)

Shakespeare: "The eyes are the gateways to the heart" (or something to
that effect)

colishe

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Sep 8, 2003, 11:40:58 PM9/8/03
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"Newsgroup Poster" <ng_p...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hello, All!
>
> Can anyone provide a source or hyperlink to the following quotes by
> Mark Twain and Shakespeare, respectively? Actually, I don't remember
> the quotes exactly, and am paraphrasing, though I don't believe I'm
> changing the meanings in the slightest...I really do seem to recall
> having chanced upon these lines, but cannot for the life of me find
> their exact source!
>
>
> THANKS IN ADVANCE!

You can likely find them at these sites:

> Mark Twain: "No man knows himself truly who does not hate himself" (or
> something to that effect)

http://www.jokemonster.com/quotes/quotes/m/q141698.html

>
> Shakespeare: "The eyes are the gateways to the heart" (or something to
> that effect)

http://www.jokemonster.com/quotes/authors/w/a132378.html


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The Sanity Inspector

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Sep 9, 2003, 9:52:15 AM9/9/03
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>Hello, All!
>
>Can anyone provide a source or hyperlink to the following quotes by
>Mark Twain and Shakespeare, respectively? Actually, I don't remember
>the quotes exactly, and am paraphrasing, though I don't believe I'm
>changing the meanings in the slightest...I really do seem to recall
>having chanced upon these lines, but cannot for the life of me find
>their exact source!

There is a very fine Shakespeare search engine here:

http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/test.html

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bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
--The Jam

maxburani

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Jan 19, 2004, 6:13:46 AM1/19/04
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I'm Massimiliano Burani, i'm a student at Tor Vergata University in Rome. I'
m writing my guaduating thesis on "Shakespeare and his connection with the
internet world". I'm looking for all kind of material(books, reviews, links
etc. ) about it. Whatever. Especially on evaluation of internet resources
and humaties computing

Many thanks

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maxburani

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Jan 19, 2004, 7:45:35 AM1/19/04
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i'm looking for a valid way, a method of evaluating internet resources on
the humanities. All that is being used of the internet resources (also a
list of the most occured resources) to analyse the complete works of an
author, Shakespeare for example.


Max


David E. Latane

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Jan 19, 2004, 8:14:36 AM1/19/04
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The "Voice of the Shuttle" is a long established site (noted Romantic lit
scholar Alan Liu) which provides links in the humanities to other sites
that have been somewhat vetted.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/

The only valid method for evaluating a site, however, is to know as much
or more about the subject than the site's authors. This is (supposedly)
what happens with refereed print journals--the referees of an article on
Jane Austen in PMLA do the evaluating so that we readers can trust the
printed article.

D. Latane

Robert Cohen

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Jan 19, 2004, 10:10:45 AM1/19/04
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criterion numero uno:

does the website intrigue you enough or actually motivate you to read/study as
much shakespeare as you can take ... before murdering to take over a scottish
castle, or becoming a falstaff beer commercial on the comedy channel or liking
that silly hit movie with gwynneth paltrow?

if not there are many other sites and resources


Amazing Grace

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Jan 19, 2004, 12:39:53 PM1/19/04
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It is sometimes said that enough monkeys typing on enough typewriters
will, given enough time, produce the entire works of Shakespeare. The
usenet has demonstrated conclusively that this is not so. Anonymous

The danger in the unthinking use of computers, or even a printed version
of Bartlett's, is that it provides a cheap imitation of a real
education. Why quote Plato if you have never read Plato? Why quote
Shakespeare if you have never read his work? To do so is to give an
appearance of sophistication and literacy while lacking both; it is to
elevate form over substance. And it is to run the risk of unethically
pulling the quotation out of context, thus changing its meaning and
abusing the author's intent. Barrett Mosbacker

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bookburn

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Jan 19, 2004, 1:14:39 PM1/19/04
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"maxburani" <maxb...@fastwebnet.it> wrote in message
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I'm thinking you are basically looking at an information system,
and there are definite parameters in configuring an ideal
program. As I remember, you look at aspects like logical
arrangement of steps in a process (flow chart), timeliness,
reliability, specificity, adaptability, accessibility, etc.. You
can do a systems analysis to see how a system breaks down, use
the requirements and constraints to map out an ideal version,
then construct a realistically improved version of the existing
system.

bookburn

Robert Cohen

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Jan 20, 2004, 10:54:49 AM1/20/04
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re: do the internet, the word processor, the xerox machine, and other such
modern electronic contraptions hurt or help the literacy & educational
attainment-achievement of civilization ?

i suppose that utilizing bartlett's book of quotations and well-phrased
excerpts from reviewers and scholars do tend to create a falseness or facade

ought this net be the sacred territory of phds, monks and book worms ?

nevertheless, if gresham lived today, he would observe that "bad" stuff-litany
drives-out the "good" internet material & postings

so, i hereby apologize if i am deemed to be in that phony & boring category

maxburani

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Jan 21, 2004, 4:56:43 AM1/21/04
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I'm working at the connection between Shakespeare and the new internet
world. I 'm looking for a list of new tecnological most used internet
resourses in the studying and analyzing of humanities and literature. Also
articles, opinions, reviews, methods, way of looking forward this new
"science".

Can anyone give me a hand?

Best regards


Mike Williams

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Jan 21, 2004, 5:15:18 AM1/21/04
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maxburani wrote:
> I'm working at the connection between Shakespeare and the new internet
> world. I 'm looking for a list of new tecnological most used internet
> resourses in the studying and analyzing of humanities and literature.
> Also articles, opinions, reviews, methods, way of looking forward
> this new "science".

What does "new technological most used internet resourses [sic]" mean?

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Slik

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Jan 21, 2004, 12:54:32 PM1/21/04
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http://internet-statistics-guide.netfirms.com/
I found this yesterday. Most of them are useless but some were helpful, a
lot of them want money in exchange for research, funny that. I'm not sure
if this is relevant to Shakespeare though. I'm assuming you tried the
Google zeitgeist?
Cheers
Slik
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Sebastiaan

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Jan 21, 2004, 5:01:32 PM1/21/04
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Hello!

You should check out http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/ , as an excellent
introduction to digitalised Shakespeare.

Sebastiaan

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Jan 21, 2004, 9:28:37 PM1/21/04
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p&e

I don't have it available to check personally anymore, but a recent
anthology of Shakespeareana, _After Shakespeare_, edited by John
Gross, might have some 'net content.

Steve Hayes

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Jan 21, 2004, 11:20:08 PM1/21/04
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 21:15:18 +1100, "Mike Williams" <mike@nospam4me> wrote:

>maxburani wrote:
>> I'm working at the connection between Shakespeare and the new internet
>> world. I 'm looking for a list of new tecnological most used internet
>> resourses in the studying and analyzing of humanities and literature.
>> Also articles, opinions, reviews, methods, way of looking forward
>> this new "science".
>
>What does "new technological most used internet resourses [sic]" mean?

Google for "google".

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dougk

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Jan 23, 2004, 3:57:42 AM1/23/04
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> It is sometimes said that enough monkeys typing on enough typewriters
> will, given enough time, produce the entire works of Shakespeare. The
> usenet has demonstrated conclusively that this is not so. Anonymous
>

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce
The Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know
this is not true.
--Robert Wilensky, Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley,
speech at a 1996 conference

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