Great Famous Quotations

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Famous Quotes Update

Today's Famous Quotes:



Denis Diderot


I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

Friedrich Nietzsche


The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf


By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

Albert Einstein


There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that.

Kahlil Gibran


The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

Albert Schweitzer


It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer.' That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Richard Bach


Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.

Samuel Adams


Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Joseph Farrell


If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

Aristotle


Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Roosevelt, Eleanor


The giving of love is an education in itself.

Mark Twain


Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

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Quotations of the day (Charleston Daily Mail)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:46:56 GMT
"Whether intentionally or unintentionally, some kind of cultural genocide is taking place.'' -- The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetans, calling for an international investigation into China's crackdown on demonstrators in Lhasa.

Recent Bush quotes on economy (AP via Yahoo! News)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:20:45 GMT
Recent comments by President Bush on the economy:

RED BULL RACING POST-BRISTOL QUOTES (The Auto Channel)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:41:16 GMT
FREE QUOTES Brian Vickers, No. 83 driver: Not really much to say about today. We had a decent run going, a top-20, with eleven laps to go when we blew a left front tire. That caused us to hit the wall and dropped us from 20th to 39th.

Quotes, comments, musings on Gov. Paterson's historic ascension (AM New York)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:33:51 GMT
Comments, quotes and musings at the inauguration of New York 's first black governor, Democrat David Paterson , a man known for his bipartisan approach that will be tested in hard fiscal times.

Fine silver quotations Thursday: C$21.218 ounce (Canadian Business)

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:52:54 GMT
The Canadian Press March 14, 2008 - 12:33 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Thursday $21.218 oz., $682.16 kg.; Wednesday $21.124 oz., $679.14 kg.

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Homer, The Iliad


The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Abraham Lincoln


Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 3


My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

Doug Larson


Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible.

Miles Davis


Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe


Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Mark Twain


It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Anon.


Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

Marcus Garvey


If you have no confidence in [yourself] you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Phillip Chesterfield


Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

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Cape Cod TODAY and WBUR

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:15:00 GMT
Cape Cod Today - It can be in prose or in verse, it can consist largely of maps or statistics or quotations, it can take the form of a story, a fable, a letter, an essay, a dialogue, or a piece of ...

The Letter of 138 Muslim scholars to the Pope and Christian Leaders

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:49:00 GMT
AsiaNews.IT - In quotations from the New and Old Testament, they take for granted that the Bible is the word of God. This too is a relative novelty. In the Koran this idea is theoretically ...

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Robert Heilbroner


Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)


History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)


A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

Peter De Vries


Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Cesare Pavese


It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Archimedes (ca. 235 bc)


Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.

Joe Gores


Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

Susan Partnow


It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.

Richard Milhous Nixon


A man is not finished when he's defeated he's finished when he quits.

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Hank's Yanks: Less class, more crass (The Sporting News via Yahoo! News)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:45:20 GMT
I already love these new New York Yankees. I love the silly spring training fights and the stupid quotes. I love it all. It feels like old times. Back to the future.

eFuture Successfully Launches Back-Office Solution for Wangfujing ...

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:41:00 GMT
MSN MoneyCentral - Among other things, 2008 financial outlook and quotations from management in this announcement, as well as strategic and operational plans, contain forward-looking statements ...

Fine silver quotations Monday: $21.373 ounce (Canadian Business)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:23:04 GMT
The Canadian Press March 17, 2008 - 1:13 p.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $21.373 oz., $687.14 kg.; Thursday $21.218 oz., $682.16 kg.

Stock & fund quotes

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:46:00 GMT
ninemsn - AP - Oil prices plunged Monday, pulling back at least temporarily from record levels as investors feared that the financial crisis that forced the sale of Bear Stearns is a sign of ...

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the Dhammapada


If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.

Thomas Carlyle


France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.

Confucius, Analects, IV.7


In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will know the man.

Lao Tzu


The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

Orson Welles


My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Charles De Gaulle


I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

Anonymous, French slogan


I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.

George Santayana


Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

Ted W. Engstrom


The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

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Ukrainian News Agency

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:05:00 GMT
Ukrainian News - According to dealers of commercial banks, at the beginning of the trading session the quotations fluctuated within 5.0100-5.0200 UAH/USD, then fell to 5.0120-5.0180 UAH/USD and by ...

Stock & fund quotes

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:02:00 GMT
ninemsn - NEW YORK, March 17 (Reuters) - Oil fell nearly 6 percent on Monday as speculators sold oil futures to raise cash and cut their exposure to commodities amid a broader decline in ...

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Greek Proverb


A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.

Paul Hawken


Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

Charles Lamb


I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

La Rochefoucauld


Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great things.

Percy Bysshe Shelley


We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

Mickey Manfield


Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don't feel all that comfortable with people who are.

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Video: Eva Mendes Pregnant, Miscarriage, Or Nothing At All?

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:51:00 GMT
Post Chronicle - Flisted quotes Page Six as saying: "WHICH actress went into rehab only after she suffered a miscarriage? She was on a four-day cocaine bender when she lost the baby she didn't even ...

Wikipedia experiences growing pains

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:10:00 GMT
Seattle Times - Looking at it one way, it's cheap to run Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation's other endeavors, which include an online compendium of quotations and a multilingual dictionary ...

Stock & fund quotes

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:54:00 GMT
ninemsn - Stunning. Only this morning (Australian time) the Wall Street Journal reported the inside running was that JP Morgan would pick up Bear Stearns for US$2.2bn, or US$20 per share ...

RA President won’t prolong emergency rule

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:56:00 GMT
PanARMENIAN Network - We offered them to remove a number of quotations but they refused. As to closure of e-media, it’s hard to follow how the law is observed in this case.

Stock Upgrades, Downgrades From TheStreet.com Ratings

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:47:00 GMT
Street.Com - Quotes delayed at least 20 minutes for all exchanges. Market Data provided by Interactive Data . Company fundamental data provided by Hemscott.