Friday, September 19, 2008

Today's Famous Quotations

Straight to the Famous Quotations ...



Harry Emerson Fosdick


He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

Douglas Noel Adams


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

Gerald Barzan


Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.

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.

George Barrell Cheever


Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

Finley Peter Dunne


An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

Sophocles


How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth

Edward R. Murrow


To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.

Quentin Crisp


The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

Brian Sutton-Smith


The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.

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Quotes for Today

Today's Quotes:



Marie de Rabutin-Chantal


We cannot destroy kindred Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

David Dunham


Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

Chris Rapier


I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn't interest me.

Albert Einstein


Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Dan McKinnon


Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Cary Grant


My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Harold R. McAlindon


The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.

William Shakespeare, Henry V.


From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.

William Penn


Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

Arab Proverb


All sunshine makes the desert.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


We used to laugh at Grandpa when he'd head off to go fishing. But we wouldn't be laughing that evening, when he'd come back with some whore he picked up in town.

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Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:47:00 GMT
WASHINGTON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday that government intervention was necessary to solve the problems roiling the financial markets, calling it a "pivotal moment for America's economy." "We must act now to ...