Daily Famous Quotes

Today's Famous Quotes:

James Thurber


I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

Jerry Della Femina


I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

William Congreve


Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

Roosevelt, Eleanor


I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Marcel Archard


The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn


Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Lewis Grizzard


The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

John Updike


If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.

Neil Postman


The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld


Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.

Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)


Be generous but not extravagant, be frugal but not miserly.

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Fine silver quotations Wednesday: $19.215 ounce (Canadian Business)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:08:19 GMT
The Canadian Press March 26, 2008 - 12:59 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Wednesday $19.215 oz., $617.76 kg.; Tuesday $18.641 oz., $599.31 kg.

Astronauts prepare to land shuttle in Florida (AlertNet)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:11:43 GMT
Source: Reuters (Updates with quotes; changes dateline from Houston, byline) By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 26 (Reuters) - The shuttle Endeavour astronauts packed gear and turned off equipment on ...

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