Daily Famous Quotes

Today's Famous Quotes:

Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891


It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Henry Ward Beecher


Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Ray Kroc


The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Booker T. Washington


No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Author Unknown


To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill


The maxim of the British people is 'Business as Usual.'

Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003


I had learnt to seek intensity�more of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Oscar Wilde


The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

George Santayana


Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

C. S. Lewis


No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.

Tim Wiley


Where you end up isn't the most important thing. It's the road you take to get you there. The road you take is what you'll look back on And call your life. Not reaching success isn't the end of the world. Not trying to reach it is.

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Overheard at the SAG Awards (AP via Yahoo! News)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:06:09 GMT
Quotes from Sunday night's Screen Actors Guild Awards:

Majesty of Bach, With a Wild West Trip (New York Times)

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:47:22 GMT
Jerome Robbins said he took on the Bach score as a challenge, and ?Goldberg Variations? looks like an exercise at times.

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David T. Wolf


Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

Pauline Kael


The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Robinson Jeffers


Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice.

Author Unknown


An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation

Bern Williams


Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

Benjamin Disraeli


The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

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SCO n'est désormais plus listé au NASDAQ

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:20:00 GMT
PC INpact - ... il y a deux mois pour la possession de la propriété intellectuelle d’Unix, la firme vient de sortir du NASDAQ (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations ...

Tel : 04 67 14 44 07

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:39:00 GMT
Fininfo - Malgré les incertitudes, les sorties commerciales de femtocells augmenteront, comme l'indiquent les RFQ (Request for Quotes) des principaux opérateurs mobiles ...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.


Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective.

Edwin Holt Hughes


If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed.

Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902


The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003


Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.

Hunter S. Thompson


No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Oscar Wilde


Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes


Youth fades love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Ronald Reagan


I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

Proverb


First Appeared in 1721

Gerald


Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

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Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:35:00 GMT
The Corner on National Review Online - Moreover, I provided other Romney quotes yesterday, which Byron does not cite, which underscores this point. Finally, in addition to the quote that K-Lo provided re:

Todays Quotes

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:03:00 +0000
Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today. - Gloria Gaither
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel ...]

Tesco decides against releasing sales figures for US business - report

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:52:00 GMT
Forbes - It quotes Jim Prevor, a food writer and publisher who edits two magazines about fresh produce and whose blog, perishablepundit.com, is read by thousands of Americans as saying:

Give up speed for Lent

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:56:00 GMT
Hampton Roads Daily Press - As we read newspapers, magazines, or books do certain phrases or quotations jump out at us?" What stories in today's paper prompt you to further reflection about your relationship to God?

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Shel Silverstein


The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg, But I will not hatch, I will not hatch. For I hear all the talk of pollution and war As the people all shout and the airplane roar, So I'm staying in here where it's safe and it's warm, And I WILL NOT HATCH

George Peabody


Education a debt due from present to future generations.

Agatha Christie


'But it is always interesting when one doesn't see,' she added. 'If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way around.'

Albert Einstein


I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs.

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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 ...]

Gewinnen ohne Risiko

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:36:00 GMT
Capital - Das Joint Venture von Deutscher Börse und SWX Group liefert Kurse und Quotes in Echtzeit. Hier geht es zu den Spielregeln und Teilnahmebedingungen.

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Famous Quotes Update

Today's Famous Quotes:

Christopher Parker


Procrastination is like a credit card it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

Aeschylus


The wisest of the wise may err.

Unknown


The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.

Unknown


Give, and forget Receive, and remember

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Month Quotes

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:00 +0000
We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis
…simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea. - Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with ...]

Foreign professors provoke angst

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:27:00 GMT
24Heures.ch - The Tribune quotes locally trained professors complaining of problems of a clash of cultures with outsiders who fail to integrate in the local society and who do not speak French.

Month Quotes

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:00 +0000
We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis
…simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea. - Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with ...]

Procès de l'Erika : Total fait appel

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:16:00 GMT
Les Echos - Une condamnation solidaire permet aux parties civiles de réclamer leurs dommages à un des condamnés, à charge pour ce dernier de se faire rembourser les quotes-parts auprès des autres coupables ...

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Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:00 +0000
We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. - Phyllis
…simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea. - Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore
I’m 65 and I guess that puts me in with ...]

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