Favorite Quotations
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Daily Famous Quotes
Charles Rosin
There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.
Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Know thyself.
Trey and Matt Stone Parker
I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.
Victor Hugo
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.
Robert Louis Stephenson
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Richard Jeni
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Leona Helmsly
Only the little people pay taxes.
Chinese Proverb
Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.
Qwatsinas
We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.
Dawson Trottman
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
Horace Bushnell
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.
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Tomorrow's Times-Tribune (The Scranton Times-Tribune)
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:06:43 GMT
Lackawanna County’s Multi-Purpose Stadium Authority meets today. With a request for quotations for a baseball adviser due Feb. 11, read about the status of that project in Thursday’s news pages.
Canadian dollar opens at 101.76 cents US, down 0.03 of a cent
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:02:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling worth C$1.9507, down 0.03 of a cent, and US$1.9850 down 0.10 of a cent. The Euro was worth C$1.4781, up 0.73 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns ...
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Charles Rosin
There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.
Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Know thyself.
Trey and Matt Stone Parker
I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.
Victor Hugo
Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.
Robert Louis Stephenson
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Richard Jeni
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Leona Helmsly
Only the little people pay taxes.
Chinese Proverb
Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.
Qwatsinas
We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.
Dawson Trottman
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
Horace Bushnell
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.
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Tomorrow's Times-Tribune (The Scranton Times-Tribune)
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:06:43 GMT
Lackawanna County’s Multi-Purpose Stadium Authority meets today. With a request for quotations for a baseball adviser due Feb. 11, read about the status of that project in Thursday’s news pages.
Canadian dollar opens at 101.76 cents US, down 0.03 of a cent
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:02:00 GMT
Canada East - Pound sterling worth C$1.9507, down 0.03 of a cent, and US$1.9850 down 0.10 of a cent. The Euro was worth C$1.4781, up 0.73 of a cent. Quotations provided by BMO Nesbitt Burns ...
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Daily Famous Quotations
Reinhold Niebuhr
All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.
Phaedrus, Fables
To add insult to injury.
Henry Miller
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.
Edward Morgan Forster
The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.
Kulawiec
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Douglas Adams, alt.fan.douglas-adams, 1 Dec 1993
Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.
Caecilius Statius
Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.
George Lois
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
Basil O'Connor
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
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Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $18.975 ounce (Canadian Business)
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:52:15 GMT
The Canadian Press February 26, 2008 - 12:38 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $18.975 oz., $610.05 kg.; Monday $18.699 oz., $601.17 kg.
Romantic Quotations
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:55:00 GMT
Indolink - 10. "Know love, know happiness. No love, no happiness." 9. "I love you not because I need you, But I need you because I love you." 8. "Never love a love that hurts, never hurt a ...
Paradise At Risk: Issues Bedeviling The Caribbean
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:10:00 GMT
Scoop - A November 2007 report by the Caribbean Media Corporation quotes St. Vincent's director of Maritime Administration, David Robin, as saying "the Eastern Caribbean is where there ...
Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:47:20 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,997.85 (+11.88) MDAX9,430.51 (-63.28) Adidas 42.99 (-0.63) Allianz 121.65 (+0.12) BASF 86...
London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:46:36 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation....
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Reinhold Niebuhr
All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.
Phaedrus, Fables
To add insult to injury.
Henry Miller
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery.
Edward Morgan Forster
The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.
Kulawiec
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Douglas Adams, alt.fan.douglas-adams, 1 Dec 1993
Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.
Caecilius Statius
Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.
George Lois
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
Basil O'Connor
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
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Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $18.975 ounce (Canadian Business)
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:52:15 GMT
The Canadian Press February 26, 2008 - 12:38 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Tuesday $18.975 oz., $610.05 kg.; Monday $18.699 oz., $601.17 kg.
Romantic Quotations
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:55:00 GMT
Indolink - 10. "Know love, know happiness. No love, no happiness." 9. "I love you not because I need you, But I need you because I love you." 8. "Never love a love that hurts, never hurt a ...
Paradise At Risk: Issues Bedeviling The Caribbean
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:10:00 GMT
Scoop - A November 2007 report by the Caribbean Media Corporation quotes St. Vincent's director of Maritime Administration, David Robin, as saying "the Eastern Caribbean is where there ...
Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:47:20 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: DAX 6,997.85 (+11.88) MDAX9,430.51 (-63.28) Adidas 42.99 (-0.63) Allianz 121.65 (+0.12) BASF 86...
London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:46:36 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation....
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Quotes Update
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
William Fullbright
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
Terry Goodkind, "Blood of the Fold"
But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
E. M. Cioran
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
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Alitalia president named as Vatican's international financial ...
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:58:00 GMT
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Stock & fund quotes
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:01:00 GMT
ninemsn - JOHANNESBURG, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Mining group BHP Billiton said on Wednesday that operating its three southern African aluminium smelters on lower power because of a shortage was "unsafe and unsustainable" in the long run. BHP, the world's ...
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Arthur Hays Sulzberger
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
William Fullbright
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
Terry Goodkind, "Blood of the Fold"
But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
E. M. Cioran
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
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Alitalia president named as Vatican's international financial ...
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:58:00 GMT
Forbes - The content on this site, including news, quotes, data and other information, is provided by AFX News and its third party content providers for your personal information only, and neither AFX News nor its third party content providers shall be liable ...
Stock & fund quotes
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:01:00 GMT
ninemsn - JOHANNESBURG, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Mining group BHP Billiton
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Donald Robert Perry Marquis
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
Fran Lebowitz
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
Old School
Beanie You think I like avoiding my wife and kids to hangout with nineteen year old girls everyday
Bethania McKenstry
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
Will Rogers
Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Charles Dickens
There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart.
Aesop
Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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k1041 BC-OK-KOLive 02-26 0080 (Hays Daily News)
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:10:29 GMT
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Here are Tuesday's opening cattle and closing hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards. CATTLE -- No opening quotes.
City savors ruling on cheese
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:29:00 GMT
Miami Herald - It added Germany had provided some ''quotations from dictionaries and specialist literature'' about Parmesan but these shed no light on how ``the word Parmesan is perceived by ...
Romantic Quotations
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:55:00 GMT
Indolink - 10. "Know love, know happiness. No love, no happiness." 9. "I love you not because I need you, But I need you because I love you." 8. "Never love a love that hurts, never hurt a ...
Washington Times updates style guide
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:11:00 GMT
Salon - The Times has altered several elements of its style guide, telling staffers to use more neutral terminology instead of the doctrinaire wording and scare quotes favored by the ...
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Donald Robert Perry Marquis
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
Fran Lebowitz
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
Old School
Beanie You think I like avoiding my wife and kids to hangout with nineteen year old girls everyday
Bethania McKenstry
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
Will Rogers
Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Charles Dickens
There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart.
Aesop
Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
More Quotes
k1041 BC-OK-KOLive 02-26 0080 (Hays Daily News)
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:10:29 GMT
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Here are Tuesday's opening cattle and closing hog quotations from the Oklahoma National Stockyards. CATTLE -- No opening quotes.
City savors ruling on cheese
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:29:00 GMT
Miami Herald - It added Germany had provided some ''quotations from dictionaries and specialist literature'' about Parmesan but these shed no light on how ``the word Parmesan is perceived by ...
Romantic Quotations
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:55:00 GMT
Indolink - 10. "Know love, know happiness. No love, no happiness." 9. "I love you not because I need you, But I need you because I love you." 8. "Never love a love that hurts, never hurt a ...
Washington Times updates style guide
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:11:00 GMT
Salon - The Times has altered several elements of its style guide, telling staffers to use more neutral terminology instead of the doctrinaire wording and scare quotes favored by the ...
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Latest greatest Quotations
Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
Unknown
One truly cannot be described, If the one doing the describing Has a bad attitude.
Germaine De Stael
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Steve Aylett, Atom (a novel, 2000)
One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God�s existence.
Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Mitch Hedburg
Fettucine Alfredo is just Macaroni and cheese for adults
Author Unknown
Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.
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Mohsen Allam/Egypt Today
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:08:00 GMT
Egypt Today - He also impresses with his quotations from Forrest Gump and use of the Glaswegian valediction See yew, Jimmy! But learning the language is only the first step.
Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:46:41 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...
Reporting: London
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:12:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism ...
Mohsen Allam/Egypt Today
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:08:00 GMT
Egypt Today - He also impresses with his quotations from Forrest Gump and use of the Glaswegian valediction See yew, Jimmy! But learning the language is only the first step.
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Here are the Quotations ...
Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
Unknown
One truly cannot be described, If the one doing the describing Has a bad attitude.
Germaine De Stael
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Steve Aylett, Atom (a novel, 2000)
One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God�s existence.
Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Mitch Hedburg
Fettucine Alfredo is just Macaroni and cheese for adults
Author Unknown
Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.
More Quotations
Mohsen Allam/Egypt Today
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:08:00 GMT
Egypt Today - He also impresses with his quotations from Forrest Gump and use of the Glaswegian valediction See yew, Jimmy! But learning the language is only the first step.
Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:46:41 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...
Reporting: London
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:12:00 GMT
American Reporter - The paper is known to invent stories and quotations on occasion, however. The project would be "a big blow to al-Qaeda," as it would send the message that the heart of terrorism ...
Mohsen Allam/Egypt Today
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:08:00 GMT
Egypt Today - He also impresses with his quotations from Forrest Gump and use of the Glaswegian valediction See yew, Jimmy! But learning the language is only the first step.
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