Quotes Update
Today's Quotes:
Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Edmund Burke
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Author Unknown
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Oscar Wilde
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.
Alexandre Dumas
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Carl Sandburg
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Lord Chesterfield, Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
More QuotationsFine silver quotations Friday: C$18.773 ounce (Canadian Business)Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:43:29 GMT
The Canadian Press April 11, 2008 - 12:32 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $18.773 oz., $603.55 kg.; Thursday $18.974 oz., $610.01 kg.
Signpost (The Weber State University Signpost)Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:45:38 GMT
In 2003, Jayson Blair resigned from the New York Times after questions came up about quotes used in a story he had written. The story had similarities to one printed earlier in the San Antonio Express-News.
London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:23:39 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation.FT-100 Index 5,895.50(- 69.60)(- 1.17 %) BAT Industries 1,909.00(-4.00)(- 0.21 %) BP Amoco 547.00(-3.00)(- 0.55 %) Diageo 1,049...
Press Quotes (All About Jazz)Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:49:10 GMT
Gallo really knows what he is about and has clearly worked hard to create something new while not forgetting his past or his present. His music further confirms the definition of jazz as an aesthetic, a musical viewpoint, an attitude, and he and his band are to be watched.