Sunday, January 27, 2008

Quotations for Today

Today's Quotations:



Dietrich Bonhoeffer


If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Samuel Butler


Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Francois Mitterand


il faut laisser du temps au temps
(you have to give time time - approximate translation)

Ogden Nash


People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

German proverb


The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.

Aesop


United we stand, divided we fall.

A. F. Shaw


I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.

Michael J. Fox


One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor


Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.

Jacob Bronowski, 1976


The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5


Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky


The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.

More Quotations

6 Quotes about Eyes

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:51:00 +0000
John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won’t tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch’s eyes. And as if this wasn’t ...]

Microsoft fixes WSUS malfunction in time for Patch Tuesday

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:14:00 GMT
CIO.de - Unfortunately the category name that was used included the word Nitrogen in double quotes (appearing as "Nitrogen"). A double quote is a restricted character within WSUS, which ...

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
We shall defend our ...]

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 ...]

Quotations Update

Give me Quotations now!



Sir Walter Scott


Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive

Dag Hammarskjold


Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

Jeff Pesis


Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked.

I Ching


Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

Branch Rickey/ Dogers GM (1943-50)


Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must.

More Quotations

(Adds details, quotes)

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:59:00 GMT
Reuters - DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. economy could enter a mild recession if financial markets remain in turmoil, the chief executive of Brazil's state-controlled oil company, Petrobras ...

Quips and quotes

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:37:00 GMT
Eagle-Tribune - "That is our agenda - schools, jobs and civic engagement. That's what will make the American story real again in this commonwealth." Gov. Deval Patrick in his State of the State speech Thursday night ...

Latest greatest Famous Quotations

Here are the Famous Quotations ...



Woody Allen


What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

Albert Einstein


The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Kahlil Gibran


Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.

Sigmund Freud


Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.

Jim Rohn


Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness--great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Charles Dickens


Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

Albert Einstein


An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted. - De Tranquillitate Animi

Rita Mae Brown


One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

James F. Hind


People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.

Francis Bacon


I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

More Quotes

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.081 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:47:11 GMT
The Canadian Press January 23, 2008 - 12:31 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.081 oz., $549.15 kg.; Tuesday $17.184 oz., $552.47 kg.

He’d rather talk about sex than God

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:27:00 GMT
Times Online - His deputy, David Kuo, quotes Bush shouting: “Well, is he Dilulio] right, or isn’t he? Have we done compassion or haven’t we? I wanna know.” Years later he might still be wondering. There is essentially no faith-based programme beyond a ...

Daily Quotes

Today's Quotes:



J. G. C. Brainard


Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

Theodore Roosevelt


No man is above the law and no man below it.

E.M. Cioran


Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Salvador de Madaringa


The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing anything. It just keeps you from enjoying it.

More Quotations

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.081 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:47:36 GMT
The Canadian Press January 23, 2008 - 12:31 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.081 oz., $549.15 kg.; Tuesday $17.184 oz., $552.47 kg.

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
We shall defend our ...]

Upstate New York college publishes diary of famed killer on 100th ...

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:47:00 GMT
San Diego Union-Tribune - Gillette read extensively in prison and many entries contain brief but incisive book reviews, and there is a section filled with favorite quotations from Socrates, Robert Browning, Richard Hugo and others. He also developed a fondness for travel ...

Today's Quotations

Quotations:



Tao Le Ching


It is only by not trusting that you turn someone into a liar.

Warren Buffett


I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.

Jules Renard


Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.

Happy Gilmore


Happy I'm stupid. You're smart. I was wrong. You were right. You're the best. I'm the wrost. You're very good-looking. I'm not very attractive.

General Smedley Butler


War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

Rainer Maria Rilke


If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Jean Paul Richter


Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.

Edmond Burke


The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Charles Roberts Buxton


In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions


New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Soren Kierkegaard


People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Benjamin Franklin


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

More Quotes

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $17.081 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:47:11 GMT
The Canadian Press January 23, 2008 - 12:31 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $17.081 oz., $549.15 kg.; Tuesday $17.184 oz., $552.47 kg.

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 ...]

Great Famous Quotations

Straight to the Famous Quotations ...



Agnes Repplier


It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Denis Diderot


There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Unknown


Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

Henry G. Strauss


I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.

Bobby Sanghavi


I am not an optimist, but i am not a pessimist, what I am is a realist.

George Santayana


The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

More Quotations

Quips and quotes (Eagle-Tribune Online)

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:59:54 GMT
"That is our agenda - schools, jobs and civic engagement. That's what will make the American story real again in this commonwealth." Gov. Deval Patrick in his State of the State speech Thursday night.

Bush Quote: “There’s no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say …”

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:55:01 +0000
Courtesy of onegoodmove and “The Daily Show” …
“There’s no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say . . .” - George W. Bush
Check out the link above for the video.

Northern Rock report: Key quotes (BBC News)

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:25:36 GMT
Some of the key comments following the Treasury Committee's report into Northern Rock's collapse.

Fine silver quotations Friday: $17.05 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:50:39 GMT
The Canadian Press January 25, 2008 - 12:42 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $17.05 oz., $548.16 kg.; Thursday $17.123 oz., $550.50 kg.