Coining a phrase?

Hi neighbors. Pour some coffee and take time to throw these phrases out to your offspring and see what they have to say about them. Taken from a great Web-site; http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-sayings-shakespeare.html, these quotations are all associated with Shakespeare. There are others about nautical phrases in the English language and phrases given to English from the Bible. We all love the English language, as difficult and grammatically problematic as it is; there is no other language that offers the new growth that English offers.

Enjoy! Shakespeare contributed more phrases to the English language than any other individual. Here's a collection of well-known quotations that are associated with Shakespeare, although not all of them were coined by him.

A dish fit for the gods, a fool's paradise, a foregone conclusion, a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse, a plague on both your houses, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, a sorry sight, alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, all corners of the world, all one to me, all that glitters is not gold / All that glisters is not gold, all the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players, all's well that ends well, and thereby hangs a tale, as cold as any stone, as dead as a doornail, as good luck would have it, as pure as the driven snow and at one fell swoop.

Bag and baggage, beware the ides of March, brevity is the soul of wit, but, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

Come the three corners of the world in arms, come what come may, comparisons are odorous, cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.

Discretion is the better part of valour, double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Eaten out of house and home, Et tu, Brute, eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog.

Fair play, fancy free, fight fire with fire, for ever and a day, foul play, friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

Good men and true, good riddance, green eyed monster.

He will give the Devil his due, heart's content, high time, his beard was as white as snow, hoist by your own petard, how sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

I bear a charmed life, I have not slept one wink, I will wear my heart upon my sleeve, if music be the food of love, play on, in a pickle, in my mind's eye, in stitches, in the twinkling of an eye.

Lay it on with a trowel, lie low, like the Dickens, love is blind.

Make your hair stand on end, milk of human kindness, misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows, Much Ado about Nothing, Mum's the word, my salad days.

Night owl, now is the winter of our discontent.

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo, off with his head, oh, that way madness lies, once more unto the breach, out of the jaws of death.

Pound of flesh, primrose path.

Rhyme nor reason.

Send him packing, set your teeth on edge, shuffle off this mortal coil, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em, something is rotten in the state of Denmark, star crossed lovers, stony hearted, such stuff as dreams are made on.

The course of true love never did run smooth, the crack of doom, the Devil incarnate, the game is afoot, the game is up, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, the smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, there's method in my madness, thereby hangs a tale, this is the short and the long of it, this is very midsummer madness, to be or not to be, that is the question, to sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub, too much of a good thing, truth will out.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown Vanish into thin air We have seen better days, wear your heart on your sleeve, what a piece of work is man, what's in a name? When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure, wild goose chase...and one of my favorites...Woe is me.

Until the next time friends remember, there are several million reasons people appreciate the English language; share these few with your children.