Where's This Saying From?

[Bender]

'If you must barter be wise.'


im conviced my own mind isn't making this up, i searched google but didn't find anything

is it a shakespere quote

i've been listening to Rihanna's song Disturbia, many lyrics sites put 'if you must faulter be wise' in the chorus, but im questioning this as im sure the above is an old and well know saying, which i think she uses in the song

 

[Cooper]

Nope never heard it.

'If you must be selfish, be wise..." is one tho

 

[Bender]

'where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise' - is another one


i can't remember where it is that i have heard the other saying from

 

[Duke]

Dunno.



Oooh, delightful blatant freepost there.

 

[Jokerman]

He who barters must be wise,
The rest aloof are the Dardanian wives

 

[Cooper]

very good jokerman

 

[Bender]

He who barters must be wise,
The rest aloof are the Dardanian wives

that is shakespere but not the exact quote, this is the correct text from the merchant of venice act 3 scene 2

Away, then! I am lock'd in one of them:
If you do love me, you will find me out.
Nerissa and the rest, stand all aloof.
Let music sound while he doth make his choice;
Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end,
Fading in music: that the comparison
May stand more proper, my eye shall be the stream
And watery death-bed for him. He may win;
And what is music then? Then music is
Even as the flourish when true subjects bow
To a new-crowned monarch: such it is
As are those dulcet sounds in break of day
That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear,
And summon him to marriage. Now he goes,
With no less presence, but with much more love,
Than young Alcides, when he did redeem
The virgin tribute paid by howling Troy
To the sea-monster: I stand for sacrifice
The rest aloof are the Dardanian wives,
With bleared visages, come forth to view
The issue of the exploit. Go, Hercules!
Live thou, I live: with much, much more dismay
I view the fight than thou that makest the fray.

 

[Bobby Sands]

I hated Merchant Of Venice for some reason.

I loved Othello though.

has anyone ever seen that movie version of Othello where Anthony Hopkins plays Othello?

 

[Duke]

i had sex wth othello

 

[Bobby Sands]

i had sex with Desdemona. I dont know why Othello was so jealous of Michael Cassio for, when it was me that was giving it to his bitch.

 

[Bender]

i am Romeo and
Juliet sucked my dick
she didn't but choke
she knew it was thick

 

[Jokerman]

that is shakespere but not the exact quote, this is the correct text from the merchant of venice act 3 scene 2

That's the corrupted version. The original manuscript had it like this:

He who barters must be wise,
The rest aloof are the Disturbia wives
Bum bum be-dum bum bum be-dum bum

 

[Bender]

^ That's just be-ing-dum

 

[dillaxx]

I have to read the Odyssey by Homer. Pisses me off.

 

[Duke]

^^ That's a great fucking story, man. The witch that turned his men to pigs, that girl who's name I can't remember (kalypso?) and scylla and charibdis and shit. and finally him returning home, kicking out the leechers and firing his bow.

Fuck you for hating on the Odyssey, man. You're just pissed there are no sacred cows in them. Nor curries.

actually come to think of it, there are cows in the oddysey. you should like it.

 

[Bobby Sands]

^^ That's a great fucking story, man. The witch that turned his men to pigs, that girl who's name I can't remember (kalypso?) and scylla and charibdis and shit. and finally him returning home, kicking out the leechers and firing his bow.

Fuck you for hating on the Odyssey, man. You're just pissed there are no sacred cows in them. Nor curries.

actually come to think of it, there are cows in the oddysey. you should like it.

thats why he hates it

 

[vg4030]

^^ That's a great fucking story, man. The witch that turned his men to pigs, that girl who's name I can't remember (kalypso?) and scylla and charibdis and shit. and finally him returning home, kicking out the leechers and firing his bow.

Fuck you for hating on the Odyssey, man. You're just pissed there are no sacred cows in them. Nor curries.

actually come to think of it, there are cows in the oddysey. you should like it.

Did you like because of the gay dudes dancing around with glowsticks?

 

[Duke]

I don't think they had glowsticks back then.

Gay dudes prancing around with torches is a possibility, though. Then I'm game.