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Sunday, June 01, 2008
Daily Quotations
Mary Bertone
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
Henry David Thoreau
Live each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Victor Borge
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Albert Einstein
If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self ... so the hell with it ... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.
Latin Proverb
It is easier to pull down than to build up.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
Henry Kissinger
We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Felicia Hermans
Deep is a wounded heart, and strong A voice that cries against a mighty wrong And full of death as a hot wind's blight, Doth the ire of a crushed affection light.
More Quotations
Big Brown is A-OK and ready to breeze, trainer says - Newsday
Sat, 31 May 2008 20:22:00 GMT
Seven days from his shot at immortality, Big Brown was ready to fire. The undefeated 3-year-old was unusually aggressive in his gallop Saturday for exercise rider Michelle Nevin, and his trainer said the colt senses that showtime is approaching. "He ...
Wrap-up of entertainment quotes - International Herald Tribune
Fri, 30 May 2008 01:10:00 GMT
"I'm not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you're not nice that the ...
Phila. Orchestra returns to China - Philadelphia Inquirer
Fri, 30 May 2008 09:24:00 GMT
GULANGYU, China - In a hilltop mansion on this tiny tourist island off the southern port of Xiamen, Yin Chengzong, 67, plunges into the Yellow River Concerto on his Steinway grand piano. Almost 40 years ago Yin, with three others, composed this ...
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Mary Bertone
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
Henry David Thoreau
Live each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Victor Borge
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Albert Einstein
If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self ... so the hell with it ... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.
Latin Proverb
It is easier to pull down than to build up.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
Henry Kissinger
We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Felicia Hermans
Deep is a wounded heart, and strong A voice that cries against a mighty wrong And full of death as a hot wind's blight, Doth the ire of a crushed affection light.
More Quotations
Big Brown is A-OK and ready to breeze, trainer says - Newsday
Sat, 31 May 2008 20:22:00 GMT
Seven days from his shot at immortality, Big Brown was ready to fire. The undefeated 3-year-old was unusually aggressive in his gallop Saturday for exercise rider Michelle Nevin, and his trainer said the colt senses that showtime is approaching. "He ...
Wrap-up of entertainment quotes - International Herald Tribune
Fri, 30 May 2008 01:10:00 GMT
"I'm not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you're not nice that the ...
Phila. Orchestra returns to China - Philadelphia Inquirer
Fri, 30 May 2008 09:24:00 GMT
GULANGYU, China - In a hilltop mansion on this tiny tourist island off the southern port of Xiamen, Yin Chengzong, 67, plunges into the Yellow River Concerto on his Steinway grand piano. Almost 40 years ago Yin, with three others, composed this ...
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