Favorite Quotations
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Daily Famous Quotations
Antony Jay / Jonathon Lynn, Sir Humphrey Appleby from the "Yes, Minister" Series
A Cynic is what an Optimist calls a Realist
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
Nikita Khrushchev
We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
William Makepeace Thackeray
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
Thomas Hardy
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Batman
The Joker Wait'll they get a load of ME
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.
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Antony Jay / Jonathon Lynn, Sir Humphrey Appleby from the "Yes, Minister" Series
A Cynic is what an Optimist calls a Realist
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
Nikita Khrushchev
We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
William Makepeace Thackeray
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
Thomas Hardy
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Batman
The Joker Wait'll they get a load of ME
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.
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Today's Quotations
Frantz Fanon
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
Iggy Pop
What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.
J.B. Priestley
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
Billy Madison
Billy No I will not make out with you. Did ya hear that this girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class. You got Chlorophyll Man up there talking about God knows what and all she can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to learn, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the chlorophyll.
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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:30:50 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...
F1: Bahrain Friday quotes: Ferrari (autosport.com)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:40:14 GMT
Bahrain Friday quotes: Ferrari
F1: Bahrain Friday quotes: Bridgestone (autosport.com)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:24:17 GMT
Bahrain Friday quotes: Bridgestone
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Check out these Quotations:
Frantz Fanon
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
Iggy Pop
What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.
J.B. Priestley
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
Billy Madison
Billy No I will not make out with you. Did ya hear that this girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class. You got Chlorophyll Man up there talking about God knows what and all she can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to learn, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the chlorophyll.
More Quotes
Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:30:50 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...
F1: Bahrain Friday quotes: Ferrari (autosport.com)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:40:14 GMT
Bahrain Friday quotes: Ferrari
F1: Bahrain Friday quotes: Bridgestone (autosport.com)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:24:17 GMT
Bahrain Friday quotes: Bridgestone
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Latest Quotations
H.L. Mencken
Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
John Kenneth Galbraith
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
Ambrose Bierce
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Douglas Jerrold
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
Karl Marx (1845), Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI)
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.
Alekandr Sergeyevick Pushkin
Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you Submit to your grief -- your time for joy will come, believe me.
Publilius Syrus
Debt is the slavery of the free.
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Google Changes Behavior For Showing Results Queried in Quotations (Search Engine Roundtable)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:08:51 GMT
Google has changed how they handle displaying search results for when you use quotes in the search box and when there are not many or any matches. For example, a search on "super running for life" at Google would normally return no results, since there are no matching documents for that phrase as a phrase. But now Google shows a link for "See results for: super running for life," without ...
Quotations of the Day (Charleston Daily Mail)
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:38:50 GMT
"This is a huge disappointment. It goes against the values that stand behind NATO. It's very much against stability in the Balkans.'' -- Macedonian government negotiator Nikola Dimitrov after the alliance decided not to let his country or Georgia or Ukraine join NATO at this time.
Bonus bundle: Alitalia will keep flying — for now; Guns in cockpits; 'Suspect mechanics' (USA Today)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:13:00 GMT
Read on for today's "bonus bundle," which are quick quotes from the media involving recent aviation stories. Alitalia will keep flying — for now From The Associated Press: "Alitalia will keep flying — for now. But the future of Italy's...
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Check out these Quotations:
H.L. Mencken
Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
John Kenneth Galbraith
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
Ambrose Bierce
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Douglas Jerrold
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
Karl Marx (1845), Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI)
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.
Alekandr Sergeyevick Pushkin
Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you Submit to your grief -- your time for joy will come, believe me.
Publilius Syrus
Debt is the slavery of the free.
More Quotes
Google Changes Behavior For Showing Results Queried in Quotations (Search Engine Roundtable)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:08:51 GMT
Google has changed how they handle displaying search results for when you use quotes in the search box and when there are not many or any matches. For example, a search on "super running for life" at Google would normally return no results, since there are no matching documents for that phrase as a phrase. But now Google shows a link for "See results for: super running for life," without ...
Quotations of the Day (Charleston Daily Mail)
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:38:50 GMT
"This is a huge disappointment. It goes against the values that stand behind NATO. It's very much against stability in the Balkans.'' -- Macedonian government negotiator Nikola Dimitrov after the alliance decided not to let his country or Georgia or Ukraine join NATO at this time.
Bonus bundle: Alitalia will keep flying — for now; Guns in cockpits; 'Suspect mechanics' (USA Today)
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:13:00 GMT
Read on for today's "bonus bundle," which are quick quotes from the media involving recent aviation stories. Alitalia will keep flying — for now From The Associated Press: "Alitalia will keep flying — for now. But the future of Italy's...
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Daily Quotations
H. A. Overstreet
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
Aubrey Menen
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.
Henry David Thoreau
I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
John Ray
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
Benjamin Franklin
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.
Bernard Baruch
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
Gordon B. Hinkley, Speech given in October 2001
Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.
Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Today's Quotations:
H. A. Overstreet
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill ... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
Aubrey Menen
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.
Henry David Thoreau
I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
John Ray
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
Benjamin Franklin
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.
Bernard Baruch
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
Gordon B. Hinkley, Speech given in October 2001
Are these perilous times? They are. But we can have peace in our hearts and in our homes.
Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Today's Quotes
Ann Landers
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Mark Twain
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Ross MacDonald
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Theodore Roosevelt
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
David W. Johnson
There are no speed limits on the road to success.
Rufus Choate
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
Erwin Schrodinger
If we are going to stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.
Ezra Bowen
If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it.
Lucan
Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls.
Phil Gramm
Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. (promoting US exports, as quoted in Time)
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Quotes:
Ann Landers
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Mark Twain
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Ross MacDonald
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Theodore Roosevelt
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
David W. Johnson
There are no speed limits on the road to success.
Rufus Choate
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
Erwin Schrodinger
If we are going to stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.
Ezra Bowen
If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it.
Lucan
Deep-seated are the wounds dealt in civil brawls.
Phil Gramm
Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. (promoting US exports, as quoted in Time)
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