Jan 11, 2010
George Bernard Shaw
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column. You think that are Ann's suitor; that you are the pursuer and she the pursued; that it is your part to woo, to persuade, to prevail, to overcome. Fool: it is you who are the pursued, the marked-down quarry, the destined.
William Shakespeare
She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd; She is a woman, therefore may be won; She ... Read More
Dec 29, 2009
Quotes by Tacitus
"Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from".
Quotes by Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
"So this is the little lady who made this big war".
Quotes by Adlai Stevenson
"Falsity withered in her presence. Hypocrisy left the room...She would rather light candles than curse the darkness".
Quotes by Philip Dormer Stanhope
"The fame of a conqueror; a cruel fame, that arises from the destruction of the human species".
Quotes by Edmund Spenser
"Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled, On Fame's ... Read More
Dec 18, 2009
Quotes by Arnold Toynbee
"America is a large, friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair".
Quotes by Hunter Stockton Thompson
"America...just a nation of two hundred used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable".
Quotes by Paul Theroux
"The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness".
Quotes by Robert Louis
"For that is the mark ... Read More
Nov 20, 2009
Quotes by Walter Whitman
"And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before)".
Quotes by Alice Walker
"Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it".
Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperations. What is called resignation is confirmed".
Quotes by Dylan Thomas
"Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?"
Quotes by Paul Theroux
"We have become used to life ... Read More
