1. Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.
The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
2. Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.
Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles
3. Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.
Elizabeth I
4. So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
