Daily Famous Quotes

Today's Famous Quotes:

Alfred A. Montapert


The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

Jeffrey Vlaming


Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum.

Tryon Edwards


Between two evils, choose neither between two goods, choose both.

William Blake


Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

Charles De Gaulle


I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2


The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire


Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

George Du Maurier


Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

Roy G. Blount, Jr.


I prefer my oysters fried That way I know my oysters died.

Anthony Powell


He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.


Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.

Zora Neale Hurston


Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

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THEY SAID IT: This week's funniest quotes from Jim Tressel and Les Miles (Detroit Free Press)

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:26:03 GMT
''I don't miss the snow,'' he said. ''I don't miss the wind and I don't miss having to scrape my windshield after it snows, then having it freeze while I was someplace else. That I don't miss.''-Ohio Morning Journal

Metals - Gold eases on stronger dollar, softer oil price but falls ...

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:23:00 GMT
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Reporting: London

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:08:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism has become a beautiful tourist attraction, it said. Al Queda is ...

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Great Quotes

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Laurence J. Peter


In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Graham Greene, Heart of the Matter (1948)


Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

Dr. A. B. Meldrum


Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Mark Twain


How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Aristotle, Politics


If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

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Cruise attacked in shock bio; questions over Suri's father

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:12:00 GMT
News.com.au - The author quotes former senior member Karen Pressley as saying: "A senior Scientology executive would be on the phone telling us that Emilio Estevez was staying in Malibu and that we had 48 hours to speak to him and get him in for an auditing session

Ohio insurer accused of bid-rigging

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:17:00 GMT
CNBC - The lawsuit names Great American as a defendant, along with Professional Risk Brokers Inc., a subsidiary that provides coverage quotations to brokers on Great American's behalf. Although Marsh & McLenann is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit ...

Consistent Quotes

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:10:00 +0000
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. - Henry David Thoreau
He who consistently plans each day will journey successfully through all of life’s years. - Drew Eric Whitman
Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to ...]

Inferiors Quotes

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:44:00 +0000
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. - Benjamin Franklin
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. - J. K. Rowling, Harry ...]

Reporting: London

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:08:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism has become a beautiful tourist attraction, it said. Al Queda is ...

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Great Famous Quotations

Check out these Famous Quotations:

J & A Foundation


You can only flap your arms so much before gravity catches up to you.

Anon.


Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

CaddyShack


Carl Spackler IT'S IN THE HOLE.

William Shakespeare


Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

C. S. Lewis


To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Rosario Castellanos


Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.

Seneca


No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

W. B. Yeats


Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

H. L. Mencken


Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

Colin Wilson


The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Voltaire


Appreciation is a wonderful thing It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Johnson


It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

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Dared Quotes

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:58:00 +0000
I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. - Bruce Barton
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had ...]

5 Quotes on Zeal

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:25:00 +0000
People say I’ve had brushes with the law. That’s not true. I’ve had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. - Mark Duffy
Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. - Charles Buxton
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the ...]

Staring

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:46:00 +0000
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. - James Grover Thurber
The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass. - Unknown
The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up ...]

Our gilded mountebanks believe that quackery can pass for gravitas

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:42:00 GMT
Guardian Unlimited - We begin with two quotations. The first comes from the actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who last year told the world about "evil genes", and declared that "by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid tumours". The second comes from the uncle of Peter ...

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Quotations Update

Today's Quotations:

Office Space


Bob We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.

George Santayana


Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

Lois McMaster Bujold


If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us

Sir B. Brodie


The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

J. K. Rowling, J. K. Rowling Official Website


Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Quintus Fabius Maximus


To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

Euripides, 438 B.C.


I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

Author Unknown


If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.

Dwight D Eisenhower


From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

Unknown


If you want to have the rainbow, Then sometimes you're gonna have to deal with the rain.

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Introducing! Mrs Okorie and Mrs Akinlawon

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:40:00 GMT
Vanguard - Now you know what Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774 meant when he lamented: “Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.” Vanguard Book of Quotations, p122. Second, Mrs. Okorie does not even pretend to have respect for the law. According to the ...

Inferiors Quotes

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:44:00 +0000
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. - Benjamin Franklin
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. - J. K. Rowling, Harry ...]

3 Quotes on Utilization

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:54:00 +0000
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the ...]

Staring

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:46:00 +0000
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. - James Grover Thurber
The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass. - Unknown
The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up ...]

Introducing! Mrs Okorie and Mrs Akinlawon

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:40:00 GMT
Vanguard - Now you know what Oliver Goldsmith, 1728-1774 meant when he lamented: “Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.” Vanguard Book of Quotations, p122. Second, Mrs. Okorie does not even pretend to have respect for the law. According to the ...

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