I was reading parts of romeo and juliet yesterday. I'm not trying to sound pretentious, there are just some parts of that I have always loved. I've read it, oh, 15 times ? And studied it in depth in college. This is one of the g retests quotes of all time.
ROMEO
Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight:
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare;
It is enough I may but call her mine.
FRIAR LAURENCE
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite:
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
Just been thinking about that a lot lately.
