Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Latest Quotations

Quotations:



Antony Jay / Jonathon Lynn, Sir Humphrey Appleby from the "Yes, Minister" Series


A Cynic is what an Optimist calls a Realist

Ernest Hemingway


An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

Percy Wynham Lewis


Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

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Month Quotes

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:00 +0000
We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis
…simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea. - Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with ...]

Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $17.184 ounce

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:48:00 GMT
Canada East - TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $17.184 oz., $552.47 kg.; Friday $17.028 oz., $547.45 kg. Log in to access premium content and features on this site. You ...

Quotes from Monday's Democratic debate (AP via Yahoo! News)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:01:23 GMT
Excerpts of exchanges between New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards at the Democratic debate Monday in Myrtle Beach, S.C. CNN's Wolf Blitzer moderated.

Heath Ledger found dead, aged 28

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:03:00 GMT
Stuff - What a shock! Reports of Aussie Oscar-nominee Heath Ledger’s death from a possible drug overdose seem to have come out of the blue. Pills were found by his body. The New York Times quotes the New ...

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Today's Quotes

Straight to the Quotes ...



Steven Runciman


Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.

Socrates


I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Mickey Spillane


If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05-01-04


If there�s one thing I know it�s God does love a good joke.

Christina Rossetti


Silence is more musical than any song.

Henry Peter Brougham


Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

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Sugar prices rise amid global cues

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:45:00 GMT
Economic Times - Following were the quotations per quintal (in Rs): Sugar ready M-30 1525-1625 and S-30 1515-1610. Mill delivery M-30 1320-1500 and S-30 1310-1490. Sugar mill gate prices (excluding duty)

Quotes of the week (BBC News)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:24:48 GMT
Kevin Keegan breezes back in to Newcastle, plus top chants

Quotes from Sir Edmund's funeral

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:24:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - "In 1985 I was fortunate enough to be able to organise and lead a trip to the North Pole that included Sir Edmund Hillary along with Neil Armstrong, Steve Fossett, and Peter Hillary among others. One ...

Enlighten

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:10:00 +0000
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. - George Orwell
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world. - Karl Kraus
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. ...]

Quotes from Sir Edmund Hillary's funeral (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:57:24 GMT
Quotes from today's funeral service for Sir Edmund Hillary.

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Famous Quotations for Today

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Laertius Diogenes


All things are in common among friends.

Bergen Evans


Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Andrea Bocelli, in TV Guide


All that counts in life is intention.

Don Byas


You call it madness, but I call it love.

Japanese Proverb


The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Sara Teasdale


Can I ever know you Or you know me?

T. S. Eliot


April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.

Henry David Thoreau


Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Alanis Morissette


I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

Charles Franklin Kettering


An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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6 Singular Quotes

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:58:00 +0000
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is ...]

In quotes: EU treaty debate (BBC News)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:21:05 GMT
A selection of quotes from the opening debate on the bill that will ratify the Lisbon Treaty.

Todays Quotes

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:03:00 +0000
Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. - Gloria Gaither
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel ...]

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Daily Quotes

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes

Jean Caldwell


The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.

William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 4 scene 7


Pray you now, forget and forgive.

Airplane


Little Girl No thanks, I take it black, like my men.

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4 Lift Quotes

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:11:00 +0000
Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up. - Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible
I hold before you my hand with each ...]

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:39:24 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.22 january21 Januarydifference New York Dow Jones 11,933.6312,099.30(- 165.67) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,287.67 2,340.02(-52.35) TokyoNikkei12,573.0513,325.94(- 752...

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Famous Quotes for Today

Today's Famous Quotes:



Phillip Lopate


The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.

Benjamin Franklin


Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy


I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Voltaire


I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.

Eric Butterworth


Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Robert Jones Burdette


There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.

Thomas Fuller


Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.

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Sugar prices rise amid global cues

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:45:00 GMT
Economic Times - Following were the quotations per quintal (in Rs): Sugar ready M-30 1525-1625 and S-30 1515-1610. Mill delivery M-30 1320-1500 and S-30 1310-1490. Sugar mill gate prices (excluding duty)

p0621 BC-UNICEF-WorldChildren 1stLd-Writethru 01-22 0777 (Hays Daily News)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:04:46 GMT
Eds: UPDATES with quotes from Sierra Leone. ADDS contributor's line.

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Latest greatest Famous Quotes

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Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital


Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often the should appear.

Maurice Wilkes


As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

Ansel Adams


Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Heywood Broun, Sitting on the World, 1924


Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

Dr. Robert Schuller


Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

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Aussie Open quotes (BBC News)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:34:02 GMT
"I wanted to cry, I wanted to smile, I wanted everything"

Book is THE quotes source, or so it says (The Charlotte Observer)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:11:07 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. "Missouri is ground zero of great American quotes," said Fred Shapiro, who compiled the new resource. There are former president Harry ...

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