Great Famous Quotes

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Jay Leno


Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

H. L. Mencken


Judge: a law student who marks his own papers.

Victor Hugo


Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Frederick Douglas


A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Blaise Pascal


Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.

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Monday at 8.30pm - ONE News

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:59:00 GMT
Young girls. Watched. Located. Taken and abused. Released, but too terrified to talk. One killed, dismembered. A night spent dumping body parts. Garbos as unwitting couriers. A ...

Quote Martial - Entertainment Quotes - MSN India Entertainment

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:42:00 GMT
Girls find me extremely geeky and boring. No one's thrown herself at me yet... It's great that people like and appreciate me but I know it will not last forever. - Imran Khan ...

Davis Cup in need of an extreme makeover - San Diego Union-Tribune

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:29:00 GMT
They played the Davis Cup semifinals over the weekend. Just thought I would bring that up in case you missed it, which would have been easy to do. In terms of how the international ...

Kurtz: MSNBC Bombs in Blogosphere - Washington Post

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:11:00 GMT
The last three days have been like a gift from heaven for Barack Obama. If he can't use this Wall Street meltdown as a springboard to put John McCain, lifelong deregulator, on the ...

The Gallery of the Clueless: Let's Build It Together - Lewrockwell.com

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:45:00 GMT
Your assignment, if you accept it. . . Help me compile statements by every so-called expert on how the financial markets were safe, the stock market was going to rise, and "people ...

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Author Unknown


It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.

Chinese Proverb


If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.

William Penn


Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, De Carne Christi


Out of the frying pan into the fire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld


If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe


Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world-the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

Alain de Lille


Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

James Truslow Adams


Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

Elizabeth Harrison


Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.

Clare Booth Luce


Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Kurt Vonnegut, slaughterhouse 5


Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.

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Economic Prognosis - Kommersant

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:56:00 GMT
The fall of the Russian stock market can be easily rendered the key economic event of July. On July 18 the Russian Trading System – RTS – slashed by 3.96% - to 2135.38 points ...

Montessori school in Duxbury holds peace ceremony - Patriot Ledger

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:40:00 GMT
The students gathered around a peace pole on Monday morning, reading poems and essays and singing songs of peace. Above them were decorated flags with quotations from peacemakers ...

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Quotes for Today

Today's Quotes:

Johann K. Lavater


Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Bertrand Russell


'Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Albert Einstein


Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

Heinrich Heine


Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

David Bissonette


They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

George Bernard Shaw


Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Walter Winchell


Nothing recedes like success.

Israel Zangwill


In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus


One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.

E. R. Hazlip


Friendship is a horizon-- which expands whenever we approach it.

Adolph Hitler


The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

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Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:19:00 GMT
"We will simply not hand over a $700 billion blank check to Wall Street and hope for a better outcome." — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, noting that Democrats want to add such ...

BD drive adoption rates slower than expected due to high OEM/ODM ... - TG Daily

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:25:00 GMT
TG Daily, BD drive adoption rates slower than expected due to high OEM/ODM quotes ... Most Popular Helium leak forces LHC to shut down for two months; HTC Dream + Android 1.0 ...

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Martin Luther King Jr.


A man who won�t die for something is not fit to live.

Groucho Marx


I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes I bet you can really see it in those genitals.

Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved , pg. 336


... I said to myself that growing up really means slowing down.

Josh Billings


A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003


The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

J. Paul Getty


If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

Maureen Dowd, New York Times, January 10, 2005


It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Jan Smuts


When in doubt, do the courageous thing.

Albert Einstein


Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Johann Kaspar Lavater


I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

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Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:19:00 GMT
"We will simply not hand over a $700 billion blank check to Wall Street and hope for a better outcome." — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, noting that Democrats want to add such ...

Canadian dollar closed 1.53 cents higher at 96.77 cents US - Canada East

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:44:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed 1.53 cents ahead at 96.77 cents US on Monday. The U.S. dollar stood at 103.34 cents Canadian, down 1.66 cents. Pound sterling closed C$1.9205 ...

Sir Edmund Hillary Dies - MSN New Zealand

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:04:00 GMT
Mon 5:01p.m. Hillary’s Himalayan Trust to receive humanitarian award Mon 4:54p.m. Award for Sir Ed's Himalayan Trust Thu 8:34a.m. Full interview with Sir Ian McKellen about Sir ...

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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kinda scary. I've wondered where this started, and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Quoting "The Bhagavad Gita",Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1945


If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1


Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.

Coming to America


Prince Akeem Oh, it was a most amazing game. The Giants of New York took on the Packers of Green Bay. The Giants triumphed by kicking a pigskin ball through a big H. A most ripping victory. Cleo McDowell Son... I'm just going to tell you this one time. If you want to keep working here, stay off the drugs.

Muhhammad Ali


VICTORY - Champions have it deep inside of them - a dream, a desire, a vision. They have the last minute stamina. They have to be a little faster. They have to have the will and the skill. But the will must be greater than the skill.

Warren Zevon


I'll sleep when I'm dead.

Sir Winston Churchill


A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Francois de Fenelon


Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

Eike von Repkow


He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]

Phillips Brooks


Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Peter T. McIntyre


Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

American Proverb


A harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment.

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Metal prices from London Commodities Exchange - Monsters and Critics

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:42:00 GMT
London - Final prices in dollars per ton - cash and forward. Also given are the previous trading day's quotations. #> cash forward Copper 7,252.50 ( 7,027.50) 7,222.50 ( 7,052.50 ...

ADVISORY-Deutsche Bank mortgage item withdrawn - Forbes

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:21:00 GMT
Copyright Thomson Financial News Limited 2008. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Thomson Financial News Content, including by framing or similar ...

Las Vegas Real Estate: Cash Is King - Seekingalpha.com

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:35:00 GMT
On this site I have been writing about the recent signs of recovery for the Las Vegas and Sacramento real estate markets. These two regions were among the hottest during the real ...

Interbank Hryvnia Rate Up By 1.5 Kopeck To 5.01 UAH/USD - Ukrainian News

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:19:00 GMT
On Monday, the interbank hryvnia rate rose by 1.5 kopeck to 5.01 UAH/USD, after an increase on Friday. According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading ...

Las Vegas Real Estate: Cash Is King - Seekingalpha.com

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:35:00 GMT
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Geoffrey Gorer


The trouble with my wife is that she is a whore in the kitchen and a cook in the bed.

Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet


To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

Mary Kay Ash


Give yourself something to work toward--constantly.

Sir Francis Bacon


If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Andrew Schneider


Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife.

S. I. Hayakawa


In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Terence


I am a man I hold that nothing human is alien to me.

King Stanislas I of Poland


To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.

Dante Alighieri


There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

Luther Standing Bear


Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

La Rochefoucauld


We are never so happy or unhappy as we think.

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ADVISORY-Deutsche Bank mortgage item withdrawn - Forbes

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:21:00 GMT
Copyright Thomson Financial News Limited 2008. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Thomson Financial News Content, including by framing or similar ...

Reading Films - Egypt Today

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:33:00 GMT
Reading movie magazines may be my greatest vice — a habit as hard to kick as smoking. But how can I resist? They carry interesting interviews with actors, actresses and ...

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Daily Quotations

Today's Quotations:

David Rockefeller


Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

Peter Ustinov


Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

Harlan Ellison


The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Charles Scribner, Jr.


Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Anthony Starr


Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.

Hermann Hesse


Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Peter Gabriel


Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

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Turkey - Factors to Watch on Sept 23 - Reuters

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:41:00 GMT
ISTANBUL, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press reports and events which could affect Turkish financial markets on Tuesday. The lira stood at 1.2370 against the ...

Las Vegas Real Estate: Cash Is King - Seekingalpha.com

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:35:00 GMT
On this site I have been writing about the recent signs of recovery for the Las Vegas and Sacramento real estate markets. These two regions were among the hottest during the real ...

Poland - Factors to Watch on Sept 23 - Reuters

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:09:00 GMT
The statistics office will releases retail sales and unemployment data for August at 0800 GMT. Analysts polled by Reuters predict sales rose 12.4 percent from a year earlier and ...

Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:19:00 GMT
"We will simply not hand over a $700 billion blank check to Wall Street and hope for a better outcome." — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, noting that Democrats want to add such ...

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Today's Quotations

Quotations:

Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)


Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

George Bernard Shaw


Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Edmund Burke


No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Robert J. Collier


The great successful men of the world have used their imagination...they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building--steadily building.

Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse


No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

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Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:19:00 GMT
"We will simply not hand over a $700 billion blank check to Wall Street and hope for a better outcome." — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, noting that Democrats want to add such ...

Las Vegas Real Estate: Cash Is King - Seekingalpha.com

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:35:00 GMT
On this site I have been writing about the recent signs of recovery for the Las Vegas and Sacramento real estate markets. These two regions were among the hottest during the real ...

Canadian dollar closed 1.53 cents higher at 96.77 cents US - Canada East

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:44:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed 1.53 cents ahead at 96.77 cents US on Monday. The U.S. dollar stood at 103.34 cents Canadian, down 1.66 cents. Pound sterling closed C$1.9205 ...

Las Vegas Real Estate: Cash Is King - Seekingalpha.com

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:35:00 GMT
On this site I have been writing about the recent signs of recovery for the Las Vegas and Sacramento real estate markets. These two regions were among the hottest during the real ...

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