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 - Love's Labour's Lost Quotes, Famous Quotations
Study
is like the heaven's glorious sun,
That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks. Love's Labour's Lost, 1. 1
Small
have continual plodders ever won
Save base authority from others' books.
These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights
That give a name to every fixed star
Have no more profit of their shining nights
Than those that walk and wot not what they are. Love's Labour's Lost, 1. 1
At
Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
But like of each thing that in season grows. Love's Labour's Lost, 1. 1
Assist
me some extemporal god of rime, for I am sure I shall turn sonneter.
Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. Love's Labour's Lost, 1. 2
Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye,
Not uttered by base sale of chapmen's tongues. Love's Labour's Lost, 2. 1
Your
wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire. Love's Labour's Lost, 2. 1
Warble,
child; make passionate my sense of hearing. Love's Labour's Lost, 3. 1
This
wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy,
This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
Regent of love rhymes, lord of folded arms,
The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
Liege of all loiterers and malecontents. Love's
Labour's Lost, 3. 1
A
wightly wanton with a velvet brow,
With two pitch balls stuck in her face for eyes;
Ay, and, by heaven, one that will do the deed
Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard:
And I to sigh for her! to watch for her!
To pray for her! Love's
Labour's Lost, 4. 2
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