Shakespeare Died 400 Years Ago Saturday, Yet His Language Lives On In These Common Phrases

If brevity is the soul of wit, we probably aren't doing Shakespeare any favors by drawing out his best lines for nearly half a millennium.

Then again, the best we've collectively come up with lately are words like "selfie," aka the Oxford Dictionaries 2013 word of the year. And, based solely on the playwright's (apparent) silent judgement of the selfie in the above photo, perhaps he'd be happy to serve as an aspirational example.