Great Famous Quotations

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Famous Quotations for Today

Today's Famous Quotations:



Mark Twain


Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Benjamin Disraeli


Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Harriet Du Autermont


No vision and you perish No Ideal, and you're lost Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.

John Barrymore


In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi


Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.

Mark Twain


All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908

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Wedding costs take the cake - New Zealand Herald

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:09:00 GMT
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They said it …. Quotes in the news - MSN Singapore

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Rebecca West


People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Tommy Boy


Richard Try an association such as Let's say the average person uses ten percent of his brain. How much do you use One and a half percent. The rest is filled with malted hops and bong resin.

J. K. Rowling


It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.

James Allen


Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Jerome K Jerome


It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Saul Bellow


A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Charles W. Eliot


Books are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)


Live amongst people in such a manner that if you die they weep over you and if you are alive they crave for your company.

Willem de Kooning


The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Anthony Brandt


Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

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Iran: Threats continue even with Obama - Presstv

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:32:00 GMT
Barack Obama's election as the new US president does not rule out threats of military actions against Tehran, says an Iranian official. "It is utterly simplistic to believe that ...

Thomson Financial News - Forbes

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:32:00 GMT
Copyright Thomson Reuters 2008. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly ...

Money helps pay for printing costs after budget cuts - San Diego Union-Tribune

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:17:00 GMT
RANCHO BERNARDO – Kevin Change said it was strange the first time he saw an advertisement across the bottom of his calculus test. But now he and his classmates look for them ...

Wedding costs take the cake - New Zealand Herald

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:09:00 GMT
Happy couples planning their wedding day may be taking a closer look at their quotes as the financial crisis grips the country. Photo / BOP Times You have picked your dream venue ...

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H. L. Mencken


It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

Jacob Getlar Smith


The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.

F Scott


Strange is it not That of the myriads who before us pass'd the Door of darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the Road, which to discover, we must travel to.

P. J. O'Rourke


Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

Theodore Roosevelt


All the resources we need are in the mind.

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Iran: Threats continue even with Obama - Presstv

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:27:00 GMT
Barack Obama's election as the new US president does not rule out threats of military actions against Tehran, says an Iranian official. "It is utterly simplistic to believe that ...

Canadian dollar opens at 78.04 cents US, up 0.73 of a cent - Canada East

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:21:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar opened at 78.04 cents US this morning, up 0.73 of a cent from Thursday's close. The U.S. dollar stood at C$1.2814 cents, down 1.21 cents. Pound ...

Hillary agrees to become US Secretary of State - New Nation

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:37:00 GMT
Hillary Clinton will agree to serve as secretary of state in US President-elect Barack Obama's cabinet, the New York Times has reported. The paper quotes two "confidants" as saying ...

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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


Sometimes I wonder if I'm patriotic enough. Yes, I want to kill people, but on both sides.

Art Costa


If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.

King Whitney Jr.


Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

Jerry Maguire


Ray D'you know that the human head weighs 8 pounds

Rita Mae Brown


Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Franz Kafka


I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Rabindranath Tagore


Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

William Faulkner


Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

Jacqueline Cochran


I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.

Churchill


History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

James Truslow Adams


Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

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Wedding costs take the cake - New Zealand Herald

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:09:00 GMT
Happy couples planning their wedding day may be taking a closer look at their quotes as the financial crisis grips the country. Photo / BOP Times You have picked your dream venue ...

Imminent Victorians - Time

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:15:00 GMT
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Hidden cost of price-comparison websites - Financial Times

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:15:00 GMT
Would-be borrowers may be unwittingly damaging their credit records by shopping around for deals and using price-comparison websites. Some lenders are now carrying out full credit ...

Africa Daily Press Briefing - Scoop

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:36:00 GMT
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Russian Proverb


A kind word is like a spring day.

Harry S Truman


It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job it's a depression when you lose yours.

Lyndon B. Johnson


In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

Annie Besant


Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Jeanne Moreau


Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

W. Somerset Maugham


It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects


Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

Euripides


Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Quentin Crisp


The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

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Canadian dollar closed at 78.30 cents US, up 0.99 of a cent - Canada East

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:27:00 GMT
TORONTO - The Canadian dollar closed at 78.30 cents US, up 0.99 of a cent on Friday. The U.S. dollar stood at 127.72 cents Canadian, down 1.63 cents. Pound sterling closed C$1.8998 ...

All Blacks cop it in vitriolic Irish column - Stuff

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:56:00 GMT
The All Blacks have been ''welcomed'' to Ireland as an unpopular team whose perennial World Cup failures puts a grin on the rugby world's face. The Irish Independent's Vincent ...

The truth about government from people who understood it - Muskogee Daily Phoenix

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:13:00 GMT
The Democrats will be running the White House, the House and the Senate soon. Before they make drastic changes, they may want to consider some interesting quotations on government ...

Requests for Proposal (RFPs) for the Week - Recycling Today

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:27:00 GMT
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Solid Waste Department hereby invites qualified firms to submit a firm price for acceptance by the Borough to furnish all labor, equipment and materials ...