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 - Sonnets, Poems - Quotes, Famous Quotations
So
on the tip of his subduing tongue
All kinds of arguments and questions deep,
All replication prompt, and reason strong,
For his advantage still did wake and sleep.
To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,
He had the dialect and different skill,
Catching all passion in his craft of will. A Lover's Complaint
O
father, what a hell of witchcraft lies
In the small orb of one particular tear. A Lover's Complaint
Crabbed
age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care. The Passionate Pilgrim, No. 12
Age,
I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee. The Passionate Pilgrim, No. 12
Have
you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for naught? The Passionate Pilgrim, No. 14
If
the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry
it had so noble a godfather. Venus and Adonis
Hunting
he loved, but love he laughed to scorn. Venus and Adonis
'Bid
me discourse, I will enchant thine ear,
Or, like a fairy, trip upon the green,
Or, like a nymph, with long dishevelled hair,
Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen:
Love is a spirit all compact of fire,
Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. Venus
and Adonis
Love
comforteth like sunshine after rain. Venus and Adonis
For
he being dead, with him is beauty slain,
And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again. Venus and Adonis
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