Saturday, October 04, 2008
Today's Famous Quotes
John Kenneth Galbraith
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.
John Updike
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.
Dwight D Eisenhower
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Unknown
Try and fail, but don't fail to try.
Mel Levine, MD, A Mind At A Time
Everyone is expected to be highly productive... but they do not all need to be turning out the same product.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966
No national political party is going to nominate another right-wing candidate for a long time.
Hubert Humphrey
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.
Claudianus
Virtue is indeed its own reward.
Arnold Bennett
'And yet,' demanded Councilor Barlow, 'what's he done Has he ever done a day's work in his life What great cause is he identified with' 'He's identified,' said the first speaker, 'with the great cause of cheering us all up.'
Anacreon
I both love and do not love and am mad and not mad.
Jane Austen, Emma
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Robert Heilbroner
Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.
More Quotes
San Francisco Giants Notes, Quotes - FOXSports.com
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:50:00 GMT
--INF Kevin Frandsen had his only at-bat of the season and grounded out to shortstop. He had a season-long rehab from Achilles tendon surgery in spring training and is a candidate to be the Opening Day second baseman in 2009. --INF/C Pablo Sandoval ...
Sport quotes of the week - BBC Sport
Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:54:00 GMT
"I feel like a dog someone stuck a needle into and juiced them up at a greyhound track to chase one of them bunnies." The inimitable Boo Weekley with his take on the Ryder Cup. "I have to put it on my sandwich list. If you see five cheeses next to it ...
Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:23:00 GMT
"It's unfortunate that holding your own is a plus. By not falling on her face, she looked good." — Mike Morse on GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's performance in her debate against Democratic rival Joe Biden. Morse, a former Republican ...
¶ 4:39 PM
Check out these Famous Quotes:
John Kenneth Galbraith
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.
John Updike
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.
Dwight D Eisenhower
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Unknown
Try and fail, but don't fail to try.
Mel Levine, MD, A Mind At A Time
Everyone is expected to be highly productive... but they do not all need to be turning out the same product.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966
No national political party is going to nominate another right-wing candidate for a long time.
Hubert Humphrey
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.
Claudianus
Virtue is indeed its own reward.
Arnold Bennett
'And yet,' demanded Councilor Barlow, 'what's he done Has he ever done a day's work in his life What great cause is he identified with' 'He's identified,' said the first speaker, 'with the great cause of cheering us all up.'
Anacreon
I both love and do not love and am mad and not mad.
Jane Austen, Emma
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Robert Heilbroner
Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.
More Quotes
San Francisco Giants Notes, Quotes - FOXSports.com
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:50:00 GMT
--INF Kevin Frandsen had his only at-bat of the season and grounded out to shortstop. He had a season-long rehab from Achilles tendon surgery in spring training and is a candidate to be the Opening Day second baseman in 2009. --INF/C Pablo Sandoval ...
Sport quotes of the week - BBC Sport
Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:54:00 GMT
"I feel like a dog someone stuck a needle into and juiced them up at a greyhound track to chase one of them bunnies." The inimitable Boo Weekley with his take on the Ryder Cup. "I have to put it on my sandwich list. If you see five cheeses next to it ...
Quotations of the day - International Herald Tribune
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:23:00 GMT
"It's unfortunate that holding your own is a plus. By not falling on her face, she looked good." — Mike Morse on GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's performance in her debate against Democratic rival Joe Biden. Morse, a former Republican ...
¶ 4:39 PM
