Friday, October 10, 2008
Latest Quotations
Michael J. Gelb
Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
Mark Twain
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Charles de Gaulle
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
Andr Maurois
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
Bruce Lee
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Sir John Harington
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:
Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured
Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed
By hymns of praise. From him alone of all
The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Walter Lippmann
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Alexander Hamilton
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Chief Seattle
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
H.L. Mencken
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
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mein Yahoo! - Wirtschaftswoche
Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:06:00 GMT
“The Americans,” wrote Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, “in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of the smallest censure and insatiable of praise.” Writing ...
Klare Worte zu Ospel - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:01:00 GMT
Von der Bankenaufsicht bis zum Finanzminister: Der Rücktritt von UBS-Präsident Marcel Ospel findet überall Zustimmung. Die jüngsten Entwicklungen bei der Grossbank im ...
¶ 2:46 AM
Quotations:
Michael J. Gelb
Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
Mark Twain
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Charles de Gaulle
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
Andr Maurois
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
Bruce Lee
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Sir John Harington
Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:
Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured
Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed
By hymns of praise. From him alone of all
The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Walter Lippmann
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Alexander Hamilton
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Chief Seattle
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
H.L. Mencken
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
More Quotations
mein Yahoo! - Wirtschaftswoche
Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:06:00 GMT
“The Americans,” wrote Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, “in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of the smallest censure and insatiable of praise.” Writing ...
Klare Worte zu Ospel - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:01:00 GMT
Von der Bankenaufsicht bis zum Finanzminister: Der Rücktritt von UBS-Präsident Marcel Ospel findet überall Zustimmung. Die jüngsten Entwicklungen bei der Grossbank im ...
¶ 2:46 AM
