Today's Famous Quotes

Famous Quotes:

Rainer Maria Rilke


If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Gore Vidal


Never have children, only grandchildren.

Cicero, De Amicitia


The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

Homer, The Odyssey


The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Leonardo DaVinci


Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Michael Flatley


Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Henry Ford


If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Horace Walpole


The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Sydney Smith


Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

General Robert E. Lee


Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.

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Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:48:05 GMT
The Canadian Press January 18, 2008 - 12:36 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $17.028 oz., $547.45 kg.; Thursday $16.88 oz., $542.69 kg.

Fine silver quotations Thursday: $16.88 ounce (Canadian Business)

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:47:45 GMT
The Canadian Press January 17, 2008 - 12:44 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $16.88 oz., $542.69 kg.; Wednesday $16.787 oz., $539.70 kg.

Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $16.787 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:47:45 GMT
The Canadian Press January 16, 2008 - 12:33 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $16.787 oz., $539.70 kg.; Tuesday $17.116 oz., $550.28 kg.

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