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Hoe om afrikaanse idiome optimaal te gebruik	Unknown	2026 02 08
The Lie said to the Truth	Unknown	2026 02 07
The Grass is Blue	A Fable	2026 02 06
Shakespeare's Most Famous Quotes	Shakespeare, William	2026 02 05
Propped Up	Franklin, Jentezen	2026 02 04
After Retirement	Various Sources	2026 02 04
Jy kan maar Jy Moenie	Unknown	2026 01 31
A Man, His Dog and Heaven	Unknown	2026 01 29
Generations	Various Sources	2026 01 28
Advice from an Old Famer	Unknown	2026 01 29

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The Grass is Blue

The Donkey and Tiger story (also known as "The Grass is Blue" parable) is a modern fable often cited to illustrate the futility of arguing with fools or those closed to reason. While sometimes incorrectly attributed to ancient fables, it is a contemporary wisdom tale used in business, leadership, and social media to explain that a person's intelligence is not measured by winning an argument against an unreasonable person.

Source : “the orgin of donkey and tiger story" prompt. Google AI Overviews, Google, 5 Feb 2025, https://www.google.com

I have found various versions of this parable online and received this version via Social Media from an unknown source.

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Shakespeare's Most Famous Quotes

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Serial	Quote	Play	Act	Scene
01	To be, or not to be: that is the question.	Hamlet	3	1
02	All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.	As You Like It	2	7
03	Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?	Romeo and Juliet	2	3
04	Now is the winter of our discontent.	Richard III	1	1
05	Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?	Macbeth	2	1
06	Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.	Twelfth Night	2	5
07	Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.	Julius Caesar	2	2
08	Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.	The Tempest	1	2
09	A man can die but once.	Henry IV, Part 2	3	2
10	How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!	King Lear	1	4
11	Frailty, thy name is woman.	Hamlet	1	2
12	‘If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?	The Merchant of Venice	3	1
13	I am one who loved not wisely but too well.	Othello	5	3
14	The lady doth protest too much, methinks	Hamlet	3	2
15	We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.	The Tempest	4	1
16	Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.	Macbeth	5	5
17	Beware the Ides of March.	Julius Caesar	1	2
18	Get thee to a nunnery.	Hamlet	3	1
19	If music be the food of love play on.	Twelfth Night	1	1
20	What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet.	Romeo and Juliet	2	2
21	The better part of valour is discretion.	Henry IV, Part 1	5	4
22	To thine own self be true.	Hamlet	1	3
23	All that glisters is not gold.	The Merchant of Venice	2	7
24	Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.	Julius Caeser	3	2
25	Nothing will come of nothing.	King Lear	1	1
26	The course of true love never did run smooth.	A Midsummer Night's Dream	1	1
27	Lord, what fools these mortals be!	A Midsummer Night's Dream	1	1
28	Cry “havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war	Julius Caesar	3	1
29	There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.	Hamlet	2	2
30	A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!	Richard III	5	4
31	There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.	Hamlet	1	5
32	Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.	A Midsummer Night's Dream	1	1
33	The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.	Julius Caesar	1	2
34	Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?	Sonnet	18
35	Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.	Sonnet	116
36	The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.	Julius Caesar	3	2
37	But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.	Julius Caesar	1	2
38	Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.	Hamlet	1	3
39	We know what we are, but know not what we may be.	Hamlet	4	5
40	Off with his head!	Richard III	3	4
41	Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.	Henry IV, Part 2	3	1
42	Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.	The Tempest	2	3
43	This is very midsummer madness.	Twelfth Night	3	4
44	Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.	Much Ado about Nothing	3	1
45	I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.	The Merry Wives of Windsor	3	2
46	We have seen better days.	Timon of Athens	4	3
47	True is it that we have seen better days	As You Like It	2	7
48	I am a man more sinned against than sinning.	King Lear	3	2
49	‘Brevity is the soul of wit	Hamlet	2	3
50	This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle… This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.	Richard II	2	1
51	What light through yonder window breaks.	Romeo and Juliet	2	2

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