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 - Henry IV Part 2 Quotes, Henry IV Part 2 Quotations
It
was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have
a good thing, to make it too common. Henry IV, Part 2, 1. 2
I
would to God my name were not so terrible to the enemy as
it is: I were better to be eaten to death with rust than to
be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. Henry IV, Part 2, 1. 2
I
can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing
only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. Henry IV, Part 2, 1. 2
When
we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
Then we must rate the cost of the erection;
Which if we find outweighs ability,
What do we then but draw anew the model
In fewer offices, or at last desist
To build at all? Henry IV, Part 2, 1. 3
A
hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear; and
I have borne, and borne, and borne; and have been fubbed off,
and fubbed off, and fubbed off, from this day to that day, that
it is a shame to be thought on. Henry IV, Part 2, 2. 1
Away, you scullion! you rampallion! you fustilarian! I'll tickle
your catastrophe. Henry IV, Part 2, 2. 1
He
hath eaten me out of house and home. Henry IV, Part 2, 2. 1
Thou
didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber,
at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson
week. Henry IV, Part 2, 2. 1
I
do now remember the poor creature, small beer. Henry
IV, Part 2, 2. 2