Favorite Quotations
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Daily Quotations
Confucius
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Cicero
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.
The Koran
Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword.
Ron Dart
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.
Maria Montessori
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Seneca
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
Jerry Seinfeld
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
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London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 16 May 2008 18:30:22 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation. FT-100 Index6,304 30(+ 52.50)(+ 0.84 %) BAT Industries 1,980.00(+ 14.00)(+ 0.71 %) BP Amoco 635.00(+9.50)(+ 1.52 %) Diageo ...
Easley backs tribute to black experience - Raleigh News & Observer
Sat, 17 May 2008 06:41:00 GMT
An artist's depiction shows the proposed monument honoring the black experience in North Carolina. RALEIGH - Gov. Mike Easley has thrown his support behind a proposed monument on ...
Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.588 ounce (Canadian Business)
Thu, 15 May 2008 17:54:10 GMT
The Canadian Press May 15, 2008 - 1:44 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.588 oz., $565.45 kg.; Wednesday $17.294 oz., $556 kg.
Last Saturday's Op page pushed my buttons - Free Lance-Star
Sat, 17 May 2008 04:53:00 GMT
The May 10 FLS opinion page provided quite a bit of political fodder, and I can't resist commenting. First point: Opinion-page editor Paul Akers is not alone as he opines on true ...
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Here are the Quotations ...
Confucius
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Cicero
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.
The Koran
Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword.
Ron Dart
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.
Maria Montessori
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Seneca
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
Jerry Seinfeld
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
More Quotations
London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 16 May 2008 18:30:22 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation. FT-100 Index6,304 30(+ 52.50)(+ 0.84 %) BAT Industries 1,980.00(+ 14.00)(+ 0.71 %) BP Amoco 635.00(+9.50)(+ 1.52 %) Diageo ...
Easley backs tribute to black experience - Raleigh News & Observer
Sat, 17 May 2008 06:41:00 GMT
An artist's depiction shows the proposed monument honoring the black experience in North Carolina. RALEIGH - Gov. Mike Easley has thrown his support behind a proposed monument on ...
Fine silver quotations Thursday: $17.588 ounce (Canadian Business)
Thu, 15 May 2008 17:54:10 GMT
The Canadian Press May 15, 2008 - 1:44 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $17.588 oz., $565.45 kg.; Wednesday $17.294 oz., $556 kg.
Last Saturday's Op page pushed my buttons - Free Lance-Star
Sat, 17 May 2008 04:53:00 GMT
The May 10 FLS opinion page provided quite a bit of political fodder, and I can't resist commenting. First point: Opinion-page editor Paul Akers is not alone as he opines on true ...
¶ 11:08 PM 0 comments
Today's Quotations
Robert Francis Kennedy
Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not'NB This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.
Thomas Jefferson
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
Jacob Chanowski
The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is know, but to question it.
Oprah Winfrey
I believe that uncertainty is rally my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.
Henry David Thoreau
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Kahlil Gibran
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Ursula Le Guin
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.
Mary Pettibone Poole
He who laughs, lasts!
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Last Saturday's Op page pushed my buttons - Free Lance-Star
Sat, 17 May 2008 04:53:00 GMT
The May 10 FLS opinion page provided quite a bit of political fodder, and I can't resist commenting. First point: Opinion-page editor Paul Akers is not alone as he opines on true ...
County may pay $142G to keep deer out of Holmdel arboretum - Asbury Park Press
Sat, 17 May 2008 09:33:00 GMT
HOLMDEL — The cost for fencing and installation work at the Shaw Arboretum at Holmdel Park will run at least $142,000 if Monmouth County officials go through with a plan to ...
Last Saturday's Op page pushed my buttons - Free Lance-Star
Sat, 17 May 2008 04:53:00 GMT
The May 10 FLS opinion page provided quite a bit of political fodder, and I can't resist commenting. First point: Opinion-page editor Paul Akers is not alone as he opines on true ...
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Check out these Quotations:
Robert Francis Kennedy
Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not'NB This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.
Thomas Jefferson
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
Jacob Chanowski
The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is know, but to question it.
Oprah Winfrey
I believe that uncertainty is rally my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.
Henry David Thoreau
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Kahlil Gibran
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Ursula Le Guin
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.
Mary Pettibone Poole
He who laughs, lasts!
More Quotes
Last Saturday's Op page pushed my buttons - Free Lance-Star
Sat, 17 May 2008 04:53:00 GMT
The May 10 FLS opinion page provided quite a bit of political fodder, and I can't resist commenting. First point: Opinion-page editor Paul Akers is not alone as he opines on true ...
County may pay $142G to keep deer out of Holmdel arboretum - Asbury Park Press
Sat, 17 May 2008 09:33:00 GMT
HOLMDEL — The cost for fencing and installation work at the Shaw Arboretum at Holmdel Park will run at least $142,000 if Monmouth County officials go through with a plan to ...
Last Saturday's Op page pushed my buttons - Free Lance-Star
Sat, 17 May 2008 04:53:00 GMT
The May 10 FLS opinion page provided quite a bit of political fodder, and I can't resist commenting. First point: Opinion-page editor Paul Akers is not alone as he opines on true ...
¶ 10:42 PM 0 comments
Today's Famous Quotations
Henry Ford
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1
Go, lovely rose!
Tell her that wastes her time and me
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Benjamin Franklin
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
William A. Smith, 1908
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, in Time Magazine
Some people make headlines while others make history.
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F1: Monaco preview quotes: McLaren (autosport.com)
Fri, 16 May 2008 12:40:40 GMT
Monaco preview quotes: McLaren
'America's toughest sheriff' slams McCain - Baxter Bulletin
Fri, 16 May 2008 09:19:00 GMT
In his soon-to-be published new book, the toughest sheriff in America has some straight talk for Sen. John McCain, and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee won't like it ...
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 16 May 2008 18:15:31 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.May 15 May 16Difference...
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Famous Quotations:
Henry Ford
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1
Go, lovely rose!
Tell her that wastes her time and me
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Benjamin Franklin
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
William A. Smith, 1908
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, in Time Magazine
Some people make headlines while others make history.
More Quotes
F1: Monaco preview quotes: McLaren (autosport.com)
Fri, 16 May 2008 12:40:40 GMT
Monaco preview quotes: McLaren
'America's toughest sheriff' slams McCain - Baxter Bulletin
Fri, 16 May 2008 09:19:00 GMT
In his soon-to-be published new book, the toughest sheriff in America has some straight talk for Sen. John McCain, and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee won't like it ...
International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)
Fri, 16 May 2008 18:15:31 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.May 15 May 16Difference...
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Great Famous Quotations
George Frost Kennan
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.
Charles Lamb
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
B. A. Billingsly
My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.
Euripides
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Cyril Connolly
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
Henry David Thoreau
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
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Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn
Fri, 16 May 2008 19:28:00 GMT
NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) - Oil shot to a record high near $128 a barrel on Friday after Goldman Sachs, the most active investment bank in energy markets, forecast a continued ...
How To Compare Auto Insurance Quote Online - Best Syndication
Fri, 16 May 2008 19:56:00 GMT
When you get car insurance quote online from an insurance company, always keep in mind to compare it with quotes issued by other companies with the same car insurance policy ...
Ukrainian News Agency - Ukrainian News
Fri, 16 May 2008 14:49:00 GMT
On Friday, the interbank hryvnia rate rose by 2 kopecks to 4.77 UAH/USD, after being stable on Thursday. According to dealers of commercial banks, during the whole trading session ...
'America's toughest sheriff' slams McCain - Baxter Bulletin
Fri, 16 May 2008 09:19:00 GMT
In his soon-to-be published new book, the toughest sheriff in America has some straight talk for Sen. John McCain, and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee won't like it ...
Town Meeting Quotes of Note (Ipswich Chronicle)
Thu, 15 May 2008 23:18:47 GMT
The readings, speaches and comments made during Town Meeting Tuesday, April 13 struck funny, passionate and incredulous notes. Here's a selection of notable quotes from the evening.
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Straight to the Famous Quotations ...
George Frost Kennan
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.
Charles Lamb
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
B. A. Billingsly
My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.
Euripides
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Cyril Connolly
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
Henry David Thoreau
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
More Quotations
Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn
Fri, 16 May 2008 19:28:00 GMT
NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) - Oil shot to a record high near $128 a barrel on Friday after Goldman Sachs, the most active investment bank in energy markets, forecast a continued ...
How To Compare Auto Insurance Quote Online - Best Syndication
Fri, 16 May 2008 19:56:00 GMT
When you get car insurance quote online from an insurance company, always keep in mind to compare it with quotes issued by other companies with the same car insurance policy ...
Ukrainian News Agency - Ukrainian News
Fri, 16 May 2008 14:49:00 GMT
On Friday, the interbank hryvnia rate rose by 2 kopecks to 4.77 UAH/USD, after being stable on Thursday. According to dealers of commercial banks, during the whole trading session ...
'America's toughest sheriff' slams McCain - Baxter Bulletin
Fri, 16 May 2008 09:19:00 GMT
In his soon-to-be published new book, the toughest sheriff in America has some straight talk for Sen. John McCain, and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee won't like it ...
Town Meeting Quotes of Note (Ipswich Chronicle)
Thu, 15 May 2008 23:18:47 GMT
The readings, speaches and comments made during Town Meeting Tuesday, April 13 struck funny, passionate and incredulous notes. Here's a selection of notable quotes from the evening.
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