Monday, April 28, 2008
Famous Quotations Update
William Makepeace Thackeray
To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next best.
Albert Einstein
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
Madam Guizot
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Barnard Elliot Bee
Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.
Colonel William Prescott
Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all of our skin layers.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Janet Jackson
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.
Bernard Mannes Baruch
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
Abraham Lincoln
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Cicero
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him.
Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel
All appears to change when we change.
More Quotations
Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.763 ounce (Canadian Business)
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:44:03 GMT
The Canadian Press April 24, 2008 - 2:35 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.763 oz., $571.08 kg.; Wednesday $18.296 oz., $588.22 kg.
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $18.296 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:58:49 GMT
The Canadian Press April 23, 2008 - 12:40 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $18.296 oz., $588.22 kg.; Tuesday $18.607 oz., $598.22 kg.
Ombudsman grounds six aeronautics officers (Manila Standard Today)
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:47:33 GMT
SIX officials of the Philippine State College of Aeronautics, including its president, were suspended by the Office of the Ombudsman after it found irregularities, including the conduct of two biddings in a single day, in its canvass for the overhaul of an airplane engine in 2005.
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Today's Famous Quotations:
William Makepeace Thackeray
To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next best.
Albert Einstein
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
Madam Guizot
Modesty is a shining light it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
Barnard Elliot Bee
Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.
Colonel William Prescott
Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all of our skin layers.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Janet Jackson
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.
Bernard Mannes Baruch
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
Abraham Lincoln
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Cicero
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him.
Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel
All appears to change when we change.
More Quotations
Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.763 ounce (Canadian Business)
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:44:03 GMT
The Canadian Press April 24, 2008 - 2:35 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.763 oz., $571.08 kg.; Wednesday $18.296 oz., $588.22 kg.
Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $18.296 ounce (Canadian Business)
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:58:49 GMT
The Canadian Press April 23, 2008 - 12:40 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $18.296 oz., $588.22 kg.; Tuesday $18.607 oz., $598.22 kg.
Ombudsman grounds six aeronautics officers (Manila Standard Today)
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:47:33 GMT
SIX officials of the Philippine State College of Aeronautics, including its president, were suspended by the Office of the Ombudsman after it found irregularities, including the conduct of two biddings in a single day, in its canvass for the overhaul of an airplane engine in 2005.
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