Today's Famous Quotes

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Samuel Johnson


An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

C.S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)


Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Unknown


He was a true friend, he stabbed me in the front.

Hermann Hesse


Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Mark Twain


Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.

John Maynard Keynes


Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

Ronald Reagan


Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Bradley Miller


Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.

Danish proverb


If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.

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Fine silver quotations Wednesday: C$16.515 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:13:10 GMT
The Canadian Press January 9, 2008 - 1:04 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $16.515 oz., $530.96 kg.; Tuesday $16.215 oz., $521.31 kg.

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Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:31:00 GMT
Washington Post - If I were directing the U.S. strategic information campaign, I would spend my dollars on collecting photos of the Muslim innocents al-Qaeda has killed and putting below them quotations from the Koran ...

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Christopher Darlington Morley


There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Kelly Marshall


It matters not how tall you are, but how straight you grow.

Oriana Fallaci


Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

William James


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Bertrand Russell


The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Richard Jeni


It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

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Byron's revenge, malice and kisses

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:39:00 GMT
Daily Telegraph - As those quotations suggest, Markovits writes in a manner similar to that of Regency novelists - Austen, Fanny Burney, Charles Maturin. In the wrong hands this could slide into affectation, but A Quiet Adjustment understands its characters too well ...

Fine silver quotations Thursday: C$16.719 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:18:01 GMT
The Canadian Press January 10, 2008 - 1:07 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $16.719 oz., $537.52 kg.; Wednesday $16.515 oz., $530.96 kg.

TIP-OFF: U-M hoops notes, quotes and more (Detroit Free Press)

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:12:37 GMT
RECORD 5-11 (1-3 Big Ten) HERO MANNY HARRIS The U-M freshman guard scored 22 points, including 12 in the first half on 4-for-5 shooting. GOAT THE WILDCATS Most Northwestern players struggled to make lay-ups. Kevin Coble (34 points) and Michael Thompson (14) were the 'Cats' only double-figure scorers.

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Teena Booth


If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

Virgil


As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Dean Gordon Brown


Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia engineering is not merely analysis engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...

Douglas Noel Adams


Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

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Chamber Orchestra taps Hewes to be executive director

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:53:00 GMT
San Diego Union-Tribune - Quotations from his writings accompany the pictures in the galleries. Both exhibitions will continue through April 20. A third, “Picturing the Process,” opening Saturday and continuing through July 6, delves into the history of photographic ...

4 Quotes on Fields

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:32:00 +0000
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads. - Logan Pearsall Smith
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. - General Douglas MacArthur
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Marcus Valerius Martialis


There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit


What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne


Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

G.K. Chesterton


The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

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Fine silver quotations Wednesday: C$16.515 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:13:10 GMT
The Canadian Press January 9, 2008 - 1:04 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $16.515 oz., $530.96 kg.; Tuesday $16.215 oz., $521.31 kg.

Reporting: London

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:34:00 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 ...

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Quentin Crisp


The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

Tallulah Bankhead


It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.

Charles Baudelaire


It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Voltaire


I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne


In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Blaise Pascal


Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Theodore Roosevelt


If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

Barbara Sher


Isolation is a dream killer.

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How well do you know Barack Obama? Here are 10 surprises

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:53:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - MALCOLM X: Today Obama quotes Martin Luther King Jr, but in his college days it was the autobiography of militant Malcolm X that grabbed his attention more than any other black writer.

The Perfect Love Letter

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:12:00 GMT
Indolink - It did not appear out of character, therefore, when poetry would appear in a letter, I did not suspect him of turning to Barrette’s ´Familiar Quotations´ to beef up his letter!

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Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:13:00 GMT
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Upton Sinclair


It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Dan Rather


And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, chapter 6


When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

George Bernard Shaw


The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.

Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poem 85


I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.

Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)


I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

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Yale Book of Quotations presents itself as the new standard (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.

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Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:05:01 GMT
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Who's Blogging

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:31:00 GMT
Washington Post - If I were directing the U.S. strategic information campaign, I would spend my dollars on collecting photos of the Muslim innocents al-Qaeda has killed and putting below them quotations from the Koran ...

Quotes about Reach

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:17:00 +0000
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. - Helen Keller
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love’s reach. - Margaret Cho
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