"I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all." — Ernest Shackleton, British explorer, born 1874
"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man." — Ernest Shackleton, British explorer, born 1874
"I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns." — Ernest Shackleton, British explorer, born 1874
"I love chaos. It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world." — Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American photographer, born 1898
"Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment." — Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American photographer, born 1898
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." — William Shakespeare, English playwright, baptized 1564
"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come." — William Shakespeare, English playwright, baptized 1564
"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me." —William Shakespeare, English playwright, baptized 1564
"Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made for kissing, lady, not for such contempt." — William Shakespeare, English playwright, baptized 1564
"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything." — William Shakespeare, English playwright, baptized 1564
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once." — William Shakespeare, English playwright, baptized 1564
"Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love." — William Shakespeare, English playwright, baptized 1564
"The devil can cite scripture for his purpose." — William Shakespeare, English playwright, baptized 1564