Today's Quotes

Quotes:

Bob Edwards


Now I know what a statesman is he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

John Holt


...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Phyllis


Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Juvenal, Satires


The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses!

Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright


Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Henry Louis Mencken


Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Lucy Montgomery


Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about It just makes me feel glad to be alive -- it's such an interesting world.

Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl


Jack When you marooned me on that god forsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing, mate I'm Captain Jack Sparrow.

More Quotes

France may send more troops to Afghanistan-Sarkozy (AlertNet)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:25:53 GMT
Source: Reuters (Adds details, quotes) LONDON, March 26 (Reuters) - France will send more troops to Afghanistan to help fight the Taliban and al Qaeda if certain conditions are met by NATO, President Nicolas ...

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:36:05 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets....

Safety panel's independence in doubt (Middletown Times Herald-Record)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:08:42 GMT
BUCHANAN — Critics are flashing "air quotations" around Indian Point's new "independent" safety evaluation panel.

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