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
When
we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools. King Lear, 4. 6
Mine
enemy's dog,
Though he had bit me, should have stood that night
Against my fire. King Lear, 4. 7
Thou
art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
Upon a wheel of fire. King Lear, 4. 7
I
am a very foolish fond old man,
Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;
And, to deal plainly,
I fear I am not in my perfect mind. King Lear, 4. 7
Men
must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither;
Ripeness is all. King Lear, 5. 2
Come,
let's away to prison:
We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,
And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies. King Lear, 5. 3
Talk
of court news; and we'll talk with them too,
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;
And take upon 's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,
In a walled prison, packs and sects of great ones,
That ebb and flow by the moon. King Lear, 5. 3
Upon
such sacrifices, my Cordelia,
The gods themselves throw incense. King Lear, 5. 3
The
gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us. King Lear, 5. 3
Her
voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. King Lear, 5. 3
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