Today's Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations:

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes


God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Andre Gide


It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Julie Arabi


All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors. Those who choose to have others edit their pathways, must live on the edge of another man's sword.

Jimi Hendrix


When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.

Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony


The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.

George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ch 8


But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959


The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Abraham Lincoln


We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

More Quotations

Yale Book of Quotations presents itself as the new standard for researchers (The Kansas City Star)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:21:02 GMT
Apparently the Show Me State is also the Quote Me State. In the recently released Yale Book of Quotations, a 1,067-page tome its editor touts as the most accurate and comprehensive of its kind, Missourians are quoted more than people from any other state.

OK! sues Heat for printing quotes from interview with Britney's sister

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:15:00 GMT
Out-Law - One celebrity magazine is suing another for copyright infringement over passages taken from one interview and inserted into another. OK! is suing Heat over its use of quotes from its interview with ...

Golden Panthers report: Notes, quotes

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:20:00 GMT
CBS Sportsline - --Opponents are starting to double 7-foot center Russell Hicks in the low post and FIU finally made someone pay when it sank six of seven three-pointers in the first 12 minutes, leading to a 30-12 ...

Harmful Quotes

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:57:00 +0000
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. - Seneca
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all ...]

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