Quotes of the Week - March 16, 2010:
"Listen, he's a nice person, but he couldn't sell watermelons if
you gave him the state troopers to flag down traffic." -- Former
CBS newsd anchor Dan Rather on Barack Obama.
"A ban on eating would show China has reached a new level of civilization."
--Chinese professor Chang Jiwen on China considering making the eating
cats and dogs illegal.
"We used to hustle on over the border for health care...And I think,
isn't that kind of ironic now." -- Sarah Palin, former governer
of Alaska, admits her family used to go to Canada for medical treatment
when she was a child. Canada has a single-payer system, which Palin
opposes.
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John Donne Quotes, Famous John Donne Quotes, Quotations
Go
and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me, where all past years are,
Or who cleft the Devil's foot,
Teach me to hear mermaids singing. John Donne Song: Go and catch a falling star
He
must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can
say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable
soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God. John Donne Sermons
I
am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying
In whining poetry. John Donne The Triple Fool
I
observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. John Donne Meditation VI
I
neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the
rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. John Donne LXXX Sermons
Just
such disparity
As if 'twixt air and angels' purity,
'Twixt women's love, and men's will ever be. John Donne Air and Angels
Let
us love nobly, and live, and add again
Years and years unto years, till we attain
To write threescore: this is the second of our reign. John Donne The Anniversary
License
my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.
O my America! my new found land,
My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned. John Donne To His Mistress Going to Bed
Love,
all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. John Donne The Sun Rising
Love
built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. John Donne The Anagram