Saturday, April 05, 2008
Daily Famous Quotations
Antony Jay / Jonathon Lynn, Sir Humphrey Appleby from the "Yes, Minister" Series
A Cynic is what an Optimist calls a Realist
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
Nikita Khrushchev
We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
William Makepeace Thackeray
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
Thomas Hardy
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Batman
The Joker Wait'll they get a load of ME
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.
¶ 5:12 PM
Here are the Famous Quotations ...
Antony Jay / Jonathon Lynn, Sir Humphrey Appleby from the "Yes, Minister" Series
A Cynic is what an Optimist calls a Realist
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
Nikita Khrushchev
We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
William Makepeace Thackeray
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
Thomas Hardy
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Batman
The Joker Wait'll they get a load of ME
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.
¶ 5:12 PM
