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Johann von Goethe
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Sam Levenson
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is we'll find it.
Jane Fonda
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
William Osler
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.
Storm Jameson
For what I have received, my the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking to the president, because what if he tells a funny joke and you laugh so hard you spit the toothpick out and it hits him in the face or something.
Bill Watterson
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin
Theodore Harold White
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Marge Piercy
[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.
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Rodney Dangerfield
My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.
Agnes Repplier
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Joseph Stalin
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Leona Helmsly
I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.
Irish Proverb
It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.
Roger Zelazny
Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even.
Ralph Abraham
My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.
More QuotationsBlack-and-white's golden era - San Diego Union-TribuneSun, 12 Oct 2008 17:07:00 GMT
They are icons of photography now: Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Lisette Model and Henri Cartier-Bresson. They are widely accepted as artists with a capital A, too, included in ...
Custer's hubris revisited on site - Rutland HeraldSun, 12 Oct 2008 11:09:00 GMT
CROW AGENCY, Mont. – One of my early memories is of getting my hair cut at an old-fashioned barbershop over on Hudson Avenue in Albany, N.Y. On the wall opposite the barber chair ...
EU states to decide bank rescue money later-Belgium - ForbesSun, 12 Oct 2008 19:30:00 GMT
PARIS, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Euro zone countries are unlikely to make pledges on Sunday about how much aid they are ready to set aside to help revitalise the banking sector, Belgian ...
Finance officials comments at IMF meetings - ReutersSun, 12 Oct 2008 19:44:00 GMT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Financial officials from around the world are in Washington this weekend for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank fall meetings. On Friday, top ...
More Famous Quotes
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Erich Segal
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
Vincent Van Gogh
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.
Unknown
Everyone hears what you say, Friends listen to what you say, Best friends listen to what you dont say.
Doug Larson
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
Hesiod
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Franklin Thomas
One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.
More QuotesQuotes from the clubs after trade week - Australian Football LeagueSun, 12 Oct 2008 13:04:00 GMT
"We were very quiet as we thought we'd be - that's just the way it was this year. This time last year we did five deals out of the 17 total] but it just wasn't to be this year. "I ...
Rabbi asks Pope, synod leaders to speak out to defend Israel - NZ CatholicTue, 07 Oct 2008 00:16:00 GMT
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Israeli Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen, the chief rabbi of Haifa, asked Pope Benedict XVI and top Catholic leaders to continue learning to appreciate the Jewish ...
(Adds quotes, background) - ReutersSun, 12 Oct 2008 15:05:00 GMT
DUBAI, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co (7201.T: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) is planning for worsening sales in Western Europe, Japan and the United States after ...
Daily Quotes
Today's Quotes:
Mary H. Waldrip
A laugh is a smile that bursts.
Unknown
The right time was at the crossroads With a future in his plans The wrong time reapproaches With right time's suitcase in hand The right time asks, how 's the journey The wrong time said the 'whether' turned me around. The right time, shakes his head, Shakes his hand and leaves Before the sun goes down.
Phyllis George
The most popular labor-saving device is still money.
Albert Einstein
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
David Fiedler, in _Byte_
Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best---or worst, depending on what is posted on any particular day.
Thomas Paine
What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Francois de La Rochefoucald
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Thomas Wolfe
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
George Bernard Shaw
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
Dr. Karl Menninger
Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Paul Cezanne
We live in a rainbow of Chaos.
More QuotesSaved from another tsunami - Sri Lanka Sunday TimesSat, 11 Oct 2008 20:36:00 GMT
Hambantota -- Ajit Prasanna, a former fisherman, sighs with relief as he looks at the expanse of green in his garden and outside. But he is unlikely to forget the crisis his family ...
Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8’ - VindicatorSun, 12 Oct 2008 04:14:00 GMT
There had never been anything quite like Bob Dylan in the 1960s, and there’s nothing quite like him today. Once he burned with revolutionary fervor, songs spilling out of a man ...
Web Tools - Edmonton JournalSun, 12 Oct 2008 08:39:00 GMT
Send us your news tips, photos and videos Get a free news feed on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter or your blog Sign up for e-mail alerts to get breaking news and Oilers news. Composer ...
Great Quotes
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Agesilaus the Second
Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.
Unknown
A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, And walks with you in the shadows.
Elija Lovejoy
As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.
Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1977)
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
All the world wondered as they witnessed ... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.
More QuotationsBoys to men - Boston GlobeSun, 12 Oct 2008 05:04:00 GMT
Ever since Chicken Little, the sky has been falling for someone. According to Guy Garcia, the current victim is the male sex, as the title of his new book, "The Decline of Men: How the American Male Is Tuning Out, Giving Up, and Flipping Off His ...
(Adds background, quotes from Merkel and Steinbrueck) - ReutersSun, 05 Oct 2008 17:51:00 GMT
BERLIN, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The German government said on Sunday it would guarantee private bank deposits as part of its response to the banking crisis, embracing an Irish approach that has angered some European countries. "The state guarantees private ...
Rev. Louis Geza Mesko, 97, founder of Devon Preparatory School - Philadelphia InquirerSun, 12 Oct 2008 07:06:00 GMT
The Rev. Louis Geza Mesko, 97, a founding father of Devon Preparatory School and a linguist who kept alive the nuances of the Hungarian language while living in exile in the United States, died Oct. 4 at the Neighborhood Hospice in West Chester ...
Charlotte: Ford NASCAR Sprint Cup Race Recap, Quotes - PaddockTalkSun, 12 Oct 2008 05:25:00 GMT
TRAVIS KVAPIL – No. 28 Hitachi Power Tools Ford Fusion (Finished 42nd) – "I don’t know. We had a decent car. We were just running around 19th or 20th on the lead lap and somebody wrecked in front of us. I just didn’t see it until it was too ...
Quotations of the day - International Herald TribuneThu, 09 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT
"Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners and the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent." — John McCain in an verbal bobble. His prepared remarks said "fellow citizens," not ...