Famous Quotes for Today

Today's Famous Quotes:

T. J. Hoover and J. C. L. Fish, 1941


Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

William Shakespeare


Jesters do often prove prophets.

Stanislaw Lec


He who limps is still walking.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh


Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

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Pillow Talk: Weapons of Intimacy - Times of India

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:39:00 GMT
Of all aids that grant a person a good night's sleep, the pillow should rank second - next only to a clear conscience. I wouldn't know if there were exclusive His and Her pillows in the Garden of Eden, but Adam should have pilloried Eve's urge to ...

London Stock Exchange quotations - Monsters and Critics

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:59:00 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation. #> FT-100 Index 5,756.90 (- 105.00) (- 1.79 %) BAT Industries 1,831.00 (- 29.00) (- 1.56 %) BP Amoco 579.75 (- 12.50) (- 2.11 ...

Pillow Talk: Weapons of Intimacy - Times of India

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:39:00 GMT
Of all aids that grant a person a good night's sleep, the pillow should rank second - next only to a clear conscience. I wouldn't know if there were exclusive His and Her pillows in the Garden of Eden, but Adam should have pilloried Eve's urge to ...

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Graham Greene


Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

Antonin Artaud


We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Sir William Bragg


The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Anna Lappe


Courage is saying, Maybe what I'm doing isn't working maybe I should try something else.

Cheyenne Proverb


A danger foreseen is half-avoided.

Jules Feiffer


Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Walter Lippmann


Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach


In youth we learn in age we understand.

Antione de St. Exupery, The Little Prince


It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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Gewinnen ohne Risiko - Capital

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:54:00 GMT
Die kommenden Monate bleiben spannend. Denn eines scheint trotz aller Unsicherheit festzustehen: Die Kursschwankungen bleiben hoch. Eine Chance, ohne Risiko zu investieren und ...

mein Yahoo! - Wirtschaftswoche

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:39:00 GMT
“The Americans,” wrote Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, “in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of the smallest censure and insatiable of praise.” Writing ...

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Louise Beal


Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Sloan Wilson


Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

John "The Penguin" Bingham, The courage to start


As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.

Jefferson Davis


The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves.

Rainer Maria Rilke


Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Mel Levine, MD, A Mind At A Time


Everyone is expected to be highly productive... but they do not all need to be turning out the same product.

Elbert Hubbard


How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

Proverbs Bible


If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat.

Buddha


There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Erich Fromm


Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies

Saint Augustine


Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Robert Frost


Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.

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mein Yahoo! - Wirtschaftswoche

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:39:00 GMT
“The Americans,” wrote Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, “in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of the smallest censure and insatiable of praise.” Writing ...

New tool aims to ease online mortgage shopping - CIO.de

Mon, 12 May 2008 15:15:00 GMT
The online broker said the new will infuse transparency into what has traditionally been a confusing process for borrowers. The new tool includes a public lender feedback system ...

Wort zum Sport: 365 Tage 1. April - Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:48:00 GMT
Sollten Sie, geneigte Leserin, geneigter Leser, mit Blick aufs Erscheinungsdatum dieser Kolumne nach einem darin verborgenen Aprilscherz suchen, so sparen Sie sich die Mühe. Da ...

Chavez: US attack on Iran will spike oil - Finanz Nachrichten

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:54:00 GMT
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - In his opening address of a rare OPEC summit, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned the United States on Saturday that oil prices would further surge ...

mein Yahoo! - Wirtschaftswoche

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:39:00 GMT
“The Americans,” wrote Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, “in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of the smallest censure and insatiable of praise.” Writing ...

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Daily Famous Quotations

Today's Famous Quotations:

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1


Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

Sophocles


Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Mark Twain


In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Edmund Wilson


There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

A.E. Houseman


When I was one-and-twenty,
I heard a wise man say,
Give pounds and crowns and guineas,
But not your heart away."

Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free."
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

Norman Podhoretz


Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

John Adams


In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

G. K. Chesterton, "Heretics", 1905


There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Dan Quayle


I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.

George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon


Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

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商务英语：投标-英语点津 - China Daily

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:28:00 GMT
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