Quotes of the Week - Nov 10, 2009:
"I wish they caught me six years ago, eight years ago." --
Bernie Madoff, jailed financier and Ponzi schemer, in newly released
interview with representatives of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
"This is all happening because my father didn't buy me a train
set as a kid." --Warren Buffett, investor, on his company's $26
billion purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad - its biggest
deal ever.
"I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears."
-- Rihanna, pop singer, on the unprecedented levels of media attention
she endured after she was assaulted by former boyfriend Chris Brown
in February.
Authors:
Shakespeare - Two Gentlemen of Verona - Quotes, Famous Quotes
Home-keeping
youth have ever homely wits. The Two Gentleman of Verona, 1. 1
I
have no other but a woman's reason:
I think him so, because I think him so. The Two Gentleman of Verona, 1. 2
O,
how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!. The Two Gentleman of Verona, 1. 3
That
man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. The Two Gentleman of Verona, 3. 1
Except
I be by Silvia in the night,
There is no music in the nightingale;
Unless I look on Silvia in the day,
There is no day for me to look upon. The Two Gentleman of Verona, 3. 1
A
man I am, cross'd with adversity. The Two Gentleman of Verona, 4. 1
Who
is Silvia? what is she,
That all our swains commend her?
Holy, fair and wise is she;
The heaven such grace did lend her,
That she might admired be.
Is she kind as she is fair?
For beauty lives with kindness.
Love doth to her eyes repair,
To help him of his blindness,
And, being helped, inhabits there. The Two Gentleman of Verona, 4. 1
Is
she not passing fair? The Two Gentleman of Verona, 4. 4
O
heaven! were man
But constant, he were perfect. The Two Gentleman of Verona, 5. 4
Come
not within the measure of my wrath. The Two Gentleman of Verona, 5. 4