William Shakespeare Quotes
This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep
That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd
So many English kings.
Shakespeare, William. King Henry IV, Part 2. Edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine, Simon & Schuster, 1999, act 4, sc. 5, lines 34-36.
Responding to the question of what he did during his one-day presidency: His term of office was only 24 hours. On March 4, 1849 President Polk's term expired. It was a Sunday, and President-elect Zachary Taylor did not wish to be inaugurated until Monday. As President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Atchison served as president for a single day.
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
