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
That
I may justly say with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, "I
came, saw, and overcame." Henry IV, Part 2, 4. 3
A
man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks
no wine. Henry IV, Part 2, 4. 3
Skill
in the weapon is nothing without sack, for that sets it a-work;
and learning, a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil till sack
commences it and sets it in act and use. Henry IV, Part 2, 4. 3
If
I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach
them should be, to forswear thin potations. Henry IV, Part 2, 4. 3
O
polished perturbation! golden care!
That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide
To many a watchful night! Sleep with it now!
Yet not so sound, and half so deeply sweet
As he whose brow with homely biggin bound
Snores out the watch of night. Henry IV, Part 2, 4. 5
This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep
That from this golden rigol hath divorced
So many English kings. Henry IV, Part 2, 4. 5
Thy
wish was father, Harry, to that thought. Henry IV, Part 2, 4. 5
Commit
the oldest sins the newest kind of ways. Henry IV, Part 2, 4. 5
It hath been prophesied to me many years
I should not die but in Jerusalem,
Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land.
But bear me to that chamber; there I'll lie:
In that Jerusalem shall Harry die. Henry
IV, Part 2, 4. 5
A
joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kick-shaws, tell
William cook. Henry
IV, Part 2, 5. 1