"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, plants British flag 97 miles from South Pole, January 9, 1909
"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man." — Ernest Shackleton, British polar explorer, on finding the magnetic South Pole, January 16, 1909
"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 Polar explorer, born February 15, 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 painter and photographer, born 1898
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." — William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, died April 23, 1616
"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come." — William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, died April 23, 1616
"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me." —William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, died April 23, 1616
"Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made for kissing, lady, not for such contempt." — William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, died April 23, 1616
"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 poet and playwright, died April 23, 1616
"There is no darkness but ignorance." — William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, died April 23, 1616
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once." — William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, died April 23, 1616
"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 poet and playwright, died April 23, 1616
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." — William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, died April 23, 1616