Favorite Quotations
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Daily Famous Quotes
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
Will Rogers
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Lao Tzu
The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.
Elizabeth Kenny
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
Doug Larson
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
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Verbatim 'The best defense . . . is an assertive citizenry.'
Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:02:00 GMT
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Asian Market Update
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:40:00 GMT
RTT News - At 6:10 p.m. local time, the dollar was quoted at 102.92-102.93 yen, down 1.41 yen from Friday's 5:00 p.m. quotes of 104.33-104.35 yen in Tokyo.
Elliott Carter: Refracted glory
Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:03:00 GMT
Philadelphia Inquirer - Contact music critic David Patrick Stearns at dstearns@phillynews.com . Elliott Carter quotations were taken from the Frank Scheffer film "A Labyrinth of Time" and from a Frank Oteri ...
London shares - mid-morning features
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:40:00 GMT
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Today's Famous Quotes:
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
Will Rogers
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Lao Tzu
The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.
Elizabeth Kenny
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
Doug Larson
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
More Quotations
VisionChina Media to Attend Piper Jaffray & ChinaVenture Investment ...
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:43:00 GMT
Yahoo Finance - New! Find Quotes Faster. You no longer need to remember symbols. Simply type in a company name or stock symbol for instant results. Learn more... Close x
Verbatim 'The best defense . . . is an assertive citizenry.'
Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:02:00 GMT
Philadelphia Inquirer - A selection from his many memorable quotations: Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm ...
Asian Market Update
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:40:00 GMT
RTT News - At 6:10 p.m. local time, the dollar was quoted at 102.92-102.93 yen, down 1.41 yen from Friday's 5:00 p.m. quotes of 104.33-104.35 yen in Tokyo.
Elliott Carter: Refracted glory
Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:03:00 GMT
Philadelphia Inquirer - Contact music critic David Patrick Stearns at dstearns@phillynews.com . Elliott Carter quotations were taken from the Frank Scheffer film "A Labyrinth of Time" and from a Frank Oteri ...
London shares - mid-morning features
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:40:00 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 ...
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Today's Famous Quotations
Joseph Conrad
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.
Arthur Schopenhauer
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
William James
The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.
Virgil
Lat., Now I know what love is.
William Torrey Harris
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. ... The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.
Jesse Louis Jackson
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:33:00 GMT
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Column: Oro Links
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Oroville Mercury-Register - Greetings from your resident recovering golfaholic, and now off we go with another series of tales, adventures and quotations in this GRAND old game from around the globe. As we ...
Chaucer closes Heritage Syndicate
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:10:00 GMT
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Famous Quotations:
Joseph Conrad
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.
Arthur Schopenhauer
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
William James
The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.
Virgil
Lat., Now I know what love is.
William Torrey Harris
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. ... The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.
Jesse Louis Jackson
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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EU inquiry deadline for Heineken buy of Scottish & Newcastle assets ...
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:40:00 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 ...
VisionChina Media to Attend Piper Jaffray & ChinaVenture Investment ...
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:33:00 GMT
Biloxi Sun Herald - VisionChina has the unique ability to deliver real-time, location-specific broadcasting, including news, stock quotes, weather and traffic reports and other entertainment ...
Column: Oro Links
Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:57:00 GMT
Oroville Mercury-Register - Greetings from your resident recovering golfaholic, and now off we go with another series of tales, adventures and quotations in this GRAND old game from around the globe. As we ...
Chaucer closes Heritage Syndicate
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:10:00 GMT
Global Reinsurance Online - The agreement follows successful completion of steps taken by Heritage to obtain quotations from several RITC providers for the closure of the open years of Syndicate 1245.
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Quotes for Today
Erma Bombeck
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
Weinbaum
If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.
Leo C. Rosten
Satire is focused bitterness.
Jimmy Carter
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
Carol Botwin
Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks.
R. D. Laing
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
Niccolo Machiavelli, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003
God creates men, but they choose each other.
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Quotations of the day
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:24:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "This could be the start of a war in South America." — Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, who ordered tanks and thousands of troops to the border with Colombia. "This victory will ...
World traveler gets a home base
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:04:00 GMT
Northwest Herald - I painted it in a soft blue color, and then gathered some of Anurita’s favorite quotes and applied them in metallic tones via vinyl transfers.
Column: Oro Links
Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:57:00 GMT
Oroville Mercury-Register - Greetings from your resident recovering golfaholic, and now off we go with another series of tales, adventures and quotations in this GRAND old game from around the globe. As we ...
EU inquiry deadline for Heineken buy of Scottish & Newcastle assets ...
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:40:00 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 ...
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Give me Quotes now!
Erma Bombeck
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
Weinbaum
If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.
Leo C. Rosten
Satire is focused bitterness.
Jimmy Carter
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
Carol Botwin
Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks.
R. D. Laing
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
Niccolo Machiavelli, quoted in O Magazine, November 2003
God creates men, but they choose each other.
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Quotations of the day
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:24:00 GMT
International Herald Tribune - "This could be the start of a war in South America." — Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, who ordered tanks and thousands of troops to the border with Colombia. "This victory will ...
World traveler gets a home base
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:04:00 GMT
Northwest Herald - I painted it in a soft blue color, and then gathered some of Anurita’s favorite quotes and applied them in metallic tones via vinyl transfers.
Column: Oro Links
Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:57:00 GMT
Oroville Mercury-Register - Greetings from your resident recovering golfaholic, and now off we go with another series of tales, adventures and quotations in this GRAND old game from around the globe. As we ...
EU inquiry deadline for Heineken buy of Scottish & Newcastle assets ...
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:40:00 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 ...
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Great Quotations
Woodrow Wilson
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up by itself.
Clarence Darrow
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"
Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
John Hay
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
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Why Widgets Don't Work
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:34:00 GMT
BusinessWeek - Apple ( AAPL ) included a version of widgets in a 2005 operating system update, and suddenly Mac computer users could easily check weather forecasts or stock quotes from little ...
Asian Market Update
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:40:00 GMT
RTT News - At 6:10 p.m. local time, the dollar was quoted at 102.92-102.93 yen, down 1.41 yen from Friday's 5:00 p.m. quotes of 104.33-104.35 yen in Tokyo.
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Straight to the Quotations ...
Woodrow Wilson
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up by itself.
Clarence Darrow
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"
Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
John Hay
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
More Quotations
Why Widgets Don't Work
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:34:00 GMT
BusinessWeek - Apple ( AAPL ) included a version of widgets in a 2005 operating system update, and suddenly Mac computer users could easily check weather forecasts or stock quotes from little ...
Asian Market Update
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:40:00 GMT
RTT News - At 6:10 p.m. local time, the dollar was quoted at 102.92-102.93 yen, down 1.41 yen from Friday's 5:00 p.m. quotes of 104.33-104.35 yen in Tokyo.
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Great Famous Quotations
Sophocles
The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.
Louis D. Brandeis
We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force...
W. H. Auden
False enchantment can last a lifetime.
John Guarrine
Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punchline.
H. L. Mencken
In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
W. Somerset Maugham
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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p0204 BC-Quotes 03-03 0120 (Hays Daily News)
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:39:44 GMT
"This could be the start of a war in South America." -- Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, who ordered tanks and thousands of troops to the border with Colombia.
Controversy over oral sex story
Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:54:00 GMT
Tacoma News Tribune - The specific part included highlighted personal testimony in the form of five quotations from students, who were identified by name. The mother and the father of one student ...
Northwestern: No Evidence of Made-Up Quotes (Washington Post)
Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:14:37 GMT
CHICAGO, Feb. 29 -- The dean of Northwestern University's prestigious Medill School of Journalism was cleared Friday by the provost of making up quotes from unidentified students for use in the alumni magazine.
Food for thought in larder price claim (Asia Times)
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:37:06 GMT
Agora's 5-Minute Forecast quotes C Larry Pope, CEO of Smithfield Foods (reckoned to be the world's largest pork processor), as saying, "There's going to be real food inflation in this country," which is not news to me or anybody who eats; then he says, "I think we need to tell the American consumer that things are going up," like we consumers are a bunch of stupid halfwits who have not noticed ...
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Check out these Famous Quotations:
Sophocles
The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.
Louis D. Brandeis
We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force...
W. H. Auden
False enchantment can last a lifetime.
John Guarrine
Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punchline.
H. L. Mencken
In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
W. Somerset Maugham
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
More Quotes
p0204 BC-Quotes 03-03 0120 (Hays Daily News)
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:39:44 GMT
"This could be the start of a war in South America." -- Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, who ordered tanks and thousands of troops to the border with Colombia.
Controversy over oral sex story
Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:54:00 GMT
Tacoma News Tribune - The specific part included highlighted personal testimony in the form of five quotations from students, who were identified by name. The mother and the father of one student ...
Northwestern: No Evidence of Made-Up Quotes (Washington Post)
Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:14:37 GMT
CHICAGO, Feb. 29 -- The dean of Northwestern University's prestigious Medill School of Journalism was cleared Friday by the provost of making up quotes from unidentified students for use in the alumni magazine.
Food for thought in larder price claim (Asia Times)
Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:37:06 GMT
Agora's 5-Minute Forecast quotes C Larry Pope, CEO of Smithfield Foods (reckoned to be the world's largest pork processor), as saying, "There's going to be real food inflation in this country," which is not news to me or anybody who eats; then he says, "I think we need to tell the American consumer that things are going up," like we consumers are a bunch of stupid halfwits who have not noticed ...
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