Quotations for Today

Today's Quotations:

Lord Chesterfield


Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

Thomas Tusser


At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

Betty Naomi Friedan


Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-Is this all

William J. Clinton


I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.

Washington Irving


Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.

Roger Rosenblatt


They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.

Plato


The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Henry Van Dyke


Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Unknown


Yesterday's failures are today's seeds That must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest Tomorrow's success.

J.W.N. Sullivan


For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. "If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence."

Confucius, The Confucian Analects


To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

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Notes and quotes from the Louisiana Legislature (The Daily Comet)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:37:56 GMT
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Quotations of the Day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:38:57 GMT
"To our knowledge, the next plan of the Tibetan independence forces is to organize suicide squads to launch violent attacks. They claimed that they fear neither bloodshed nor sacrifice.'' -- China's Public Security Bureau spokesman Wu Heping.

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