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 - King Lear Quotes, Famous King Lear Quotations
O,
sir! You are old;
Nature in you stands on the very verge
Of her confine. King Lear, 2. 4
O,
reason not the need: our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life's as cheap as beast's. King Lear, 2. 4
Let
not women's weapons, water-drops,
Stain my man's cheeks! King Lear, 2. 4
I
will do such things,--
What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
The terrors of the earth. King Lear, 2. 4
No,
I'll not weep:
I have full cause of weeping; but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,
Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad! King Lear, 2. 4
Blow,
winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once,
That make ingrateful man! King Lear, 3. 2
Rumble
thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness. King Lear, 3. 2
A
poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. King Lear, 3. 2
There
was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. King Lear, 3. 2
No,
I will be a pattern of all patience; I will say nothing. King Lear, 3. 2
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