Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Famous Quotations Update
William Shakespeare
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
Randolph Silliman Bourne
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Anon.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
William Blake
Thou art a Man, God is no more.
Thy own humanity learn to adore.
Marcel Proust
And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying.
James F. Byrnes
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
Real Live Preacher
We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of Gods existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.
Miguel de Cervantes
That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Marc Chagall
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
H.L. Mencken
For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong
More Quotes
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:39:00 GMT
"Doing nothing is not an option.'' -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer after seeing the $700 billion emergency package for the nation's financial systems fail. "I went to ...
Celebrating OED’s 80th - Yale Daily News
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:17:00 GMT
If there was ever any question that Yale has left its mark on the world, Fred Shapiro answered it — with a resounding yes. According to Shapiro, a frequent contributor to the ...
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Here are the Famous Quotations ...
William Shakespeare
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
Randolph Silliman Bourne
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Anon.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
William Blake
Thou art a Man, God is no more.
Thy own humanity learn to adore.
Marcel Proust
And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying.
James F. Byrnes
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
Real Live Preacher
We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of Gods existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.
Miguel de Cervantes
That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Marc Chagall
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
H.L. Mencken
For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong
More Quotes
Quotations of the day - Charleston Gazette
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:39:00 GMT
"Doing nothing is not an option.'' -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer after seeing the $700 billion emergency package for the nation's financial systems fail. "I went to ...
Celebrating OED’s 80th - Yale Daily News
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:17:00 GMT
If there was ever any question that Yale has left its mark on the world, Fred Shapiro answered it — with a resounding yes. According to Shapiro, a frequent contributor to the ...
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