WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 21 May 2026 18:46:05 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg beware – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Shakespeare, William -- Tempest, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 344ff (2.1.344-349) (1611) https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/78025/ https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/78025/#respond Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:31:39 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=78025 ARIEL: While you here do snoring lie,
Open-eyed conspiracy
His time doth take.
If of life you keep a care,
Shake off slumber and beware.
Awake, awake!


William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Tempest, Act 2, sc. 1, l. 344ff (2.1.344-349) (1611)
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Warning the sleeping Gonzalo of Antonio and Sebastian's plot to kill Alonso. ]]> https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/78025/feed/ 0 78025 Carroll, Lewis -- Through the Looking-Glass, ch. 1 (1872) https://wist.info/carroll-lewis/33464/ https://wist.info/carroll-lewis/33464/#respond Fri, 29 Apr 2016 18:13:21 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=33464 Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!


Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) English writer and mathematician [pseud. of Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]
Through the Looking-Glass, ch. 1 (1872) ]]> https://wist.info/carroll-lewis/33464/feed/ 0 33464