Famous Quotations Update

Today's Famous Quotations:

Julius Caesar, (attributed)


I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

Margaret Cho


If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Jalal ud-Din Rumi


Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Maurice Mascaranhas


Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe

Pierre Elliott Trudeau


My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

Dwight D Eisenhower


There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

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Tripoint appointed to panel for Victoria government

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:39:00 GMT
CIO.de - The panel was established to improve the speed of seeking quotes and selecting developers. The move has reduced the department's overall cost of development and the three year ...

Injured Pedrosa to return home from test (Reuters via Yahoo!7 Sports)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:38:24 GMT
(Adds Pedrosa returning home, quotes)

Book is THE quotes source, or so it says (The Charlotte Observer)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:09:56 GMT
Apparently, the Show Me State is also the Quote Me State. In the recently released "Yale Book of Quotations," a 1,067-page tome its editor touts as the most accurate and comprehensive of its kind, Missourians are quoted more than people from any other state. "Missouri is ground zero of great American quotes," said Fred Shapiro, who compiled the new resource. There are former president Harry ...

Tripoint appointed to panel for Victoria government

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:39:00 GMT
CIO.de - The panel was established to improve the speed of seeking quotes and selecting developers. The move has reduced the department's overall cost of development and the three year ...

Microsoft fixes WSUS malfunction in time for Patch Tuesday

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:14:00 GMT
CIO.de - Unfortunately the category name that was used included the word Nitrogen in double quotes (appearing as "Nitrogen"). A double quote is a restricted character within WSUS, which ...

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John Dryden


Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

Opera producer Larry Kelly


Do it big or stay in bed.

William Shakespeare


Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

Sinclair Lewis


Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"


Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Mother Theresa


Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett


At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Dorothy Parker


Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.

Julius Caesar, from Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars


Veni, vidi, vici.
[I came, I saw, I conquered]

Samual Rutherford


I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup.

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London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:09:44 GMT
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Bush Quote: “There’s no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say …”

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:55:01 +0000
Courtesy of onegoodmove and “The Daily Show” …
“There’s no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say . . .” - George W. Bush
Check out the link above for the video.

International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:54:23 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.January 21 January 20Difference...

4 Quotes on Fields

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:32:00 +0000
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads. - Logan Pearsall Smith
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. - General Douglas MacArthur
We shall defend our ...]

Quotes of the week (BBC News)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:24:48 GMT
Kevin Keegan breezes back in to Newcastle, plus top chants

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Benjamin McLane Spock


Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny, he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence.

Victor Cousin


All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

Albert Camus


Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Maxim Gorky


One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

Geoffrey F. Albert


It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

Saint Francis de Sales


When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Philip Caldwell


The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.

Jesus Christ, Matthew 16:26


What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul?

Albert Einstein


It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

J. K. Rowling


It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

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Quotes from the 2008 candidates (AP via Yahoo! News)

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:23:33 GMT
Quotes from the presidential candidates regarding Saturday's contests:

In quotes: EU treaty debate (BBC News)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:31:24 GMT
A selection of quotes from the opening debate on the bill that will ratify the Lisbon Treaty.

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Famous Quotations:

H. L. Mencken


Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Unknown


Never judge someone till you've walked a mile in their shoes, cause then you're a mile away and you've got their shoes.

James Russell Lowell


Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.

Stephen Hawking


The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Maya Angelou


If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

Roald Dahl


Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

Pearl Buck, The Joy of Children, 1964


The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Alan Mackay


Like the ski resort full of girls hunting for husbands and husbands hunting for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.

Brigham Young


Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

Lord Byron, Don Juan


Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

Sufi Proverb


There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.

Leonardo Da Vinci


The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

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Aussie Open quotes (BBC News)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:34:02 GMT
"I wanted to cry, I wanted to smile, I wanted everything"

Stock & fund quotes

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:24:00 GMT
ninemsn - NEW YORK, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Oil fell on Tuesday amid intensifying worry over the health of the U.S. economy, but traders cut the market's losses after the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates by 75 ...

London Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:09:44 GMT
London - Closing prices in pence on the London Stock Exchange today. In brackets movement against previous quotation....

Stock & fund quotes

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:24:00 GMT
ninemsn - NEW YORK, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Oil fell on Tuesday amid intensifying worry over the health of the U.S. economy, but traders cut the market's losses after the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates by 75 ...

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Calvin Coolidge


No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Sir V Pritchett


There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together.

H. Mathews


A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Aristotle


Happiness is a state of activity.

Eva Young


To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

Jewish Proverb


A mother understands what a child does not say.

Henry J. Tillman


The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I wish I lived back in the Old West days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick. Then I'd go out west and start digging for gold. When someone came up and asked what I was doing, I'd say, 'Looking for gold, ya durn fool.' He'd say, 'Your pick is gold.' And I'd say, 'well, that was easy.' Good joke, huh

Arnold Bennett


Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Che Guevara


Let the world change you and you can change the world. (Deje el mundo cambiarle y usted puede cambiar el mundo.)

Mark Morrison-Reed


The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed.

Unknown


Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:54:23 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.January 21 January 20Difference...

Lesson Quotes

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:36:00 +0000
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Phyllis Bottome
If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you ...]

MLK inspires local young people

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:21:00 GMT
Visalia Times-Delta - Boys and Girls Club members took turns reading King's poems and quotations. The event featured keynote speaker Todd Slinde, a member of Washington Residents for a Better Community.

4 Quotes on Fields

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:32:00 +0000
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them, and they are full of toads. - Logan Pearsall Smith
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. - General Douglas MacArthur
We shall defend our ...]

UPDATE: Abbas Calls On Israel To Lift Gaza Blockade - AFP (Nasdaq)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:51:36 GMT
(Adds quotes, background.) RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP)--Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas called on Israel to fully lift its blockade of Hamas-run Gaza, calling a partial easing of the lockdown Tuesday "insufficient."

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