Famous Quotations for Today

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Boris Pasternak


What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Edmund Burke


Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2


He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Storm Jameson


For what I have received, my the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Mort Crim


It's impossible to reach good conclusions with bad information. . . . We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright


Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

Mark Twain


In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

Louis Untermeyer


Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars

Theodore Roosevelt


Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

H. L. Mencken


It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Clementine Paddleford


Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.

More Quotes

Quotes of the day (Salon.com)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:00:20 GMT
John McCain excoriates those who sentimentalize war, which left us wondering: Who did that recently?

Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:16:50 GMT
``I meant no disrespect to Ms. Jennifer Garner when I met her at the Oscars and apologize if I made her uncomfortable.'' — Gary Busey, apologizing for awkwardly embracing Garner on the red carpet at the Oscars last month.

Love Songs (2007) (New York Times)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:33:15 GMT
From left, Clotilde Hesme, Ludivine Sagnier and Louis Garrel, a threesome in “Love Songs.”

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:51:15 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.New York Dow Jones 12,533.2512,548.64(-15.39) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,332.94 2,326.75(+ 6.19) TokyoNikkei12,745.2212,480.09(+ 265.13) Sydney All Ordinaries 5,355....

Sanchez buoyed by Mexico win over Ghana (Reuters via Yahoo!7 Sports)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:27:49 GMT
(adds Sanchez quotes)

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