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
I
am a man
More sinned against than sinning. King Lear, 3. 2
Oh,
that way madness lies; let me shun that. King Lear, 3. 4
Poor
naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these? King Lear, 3. 4
Take
physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. King Lear, 3. 4
Pillicock
sat on Pillicock-hill:
Halloo, halloo, loo, loo! King Lear, 3. 4
Out-paramoured
the Turk. King Lear, 3. 4
Keep
thy foot
out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen
from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. King Lear, 3. 4
Thou
art the thing itself:
unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare,
forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings!
come unbutton here. King Lear, 3. 4
'Tis
a naughty night to swim in. King Lear, 3. 4
This
is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins
at curfew, and walks till the first cock; he gives
the web and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the
hare-lip; mildews the white wheat, and hurts the
poor creature of earth. King Lear, 3. 4