Quotes of the Week - Oct 5, 2008:
"The reality is we're in an urgent situation and the consequences
will get bigger each day we do not act." -- US President George Bush,
on efforts to resurrect the $700 billion financial rescue package aimed
at stabilizing financial markets.
"Sixty-seven percent of the Republican Conference decided to put
political ideology ahead of the best interest of our great nation."
-- U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn, a Democrat from South Carolina,
after the House voted against the $700-billion bailout package.
"I go three, maybe four times a year to get tested for sexually transmitted
infections and most of the time I don't even need to." -- Singer
and TV presenter Kelly Osborne.
Authors:
Shakespeare - Troilus and Cressida Quotes, Famous Quotations
Beauty,
wit,
High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
To envious and calumniating time.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. Troilus and Cressida, 3. 3
A
plague of opinion! a man may wear it on both sides, like a leather
jerkin. Troilus and Cressida, 3. 3
What
a pair of spectacles is here! Pandarus [of the Lovers], Troilus and Cressida,
4. 4
Fie,
fie upon her!
There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,
Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out
At every joint and motive of her body. Troilus and Cressida, 4. 5
What's
past and what's to come is strewed with husks
And formless ruin of oblivion. Troilus and Cressida, 4. 5
The
end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it. Troilus and Cressida, 4. 5
Lechery,
lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion. Troilus and Cressida, 5. 2
Words,
words, mere words, no matter from the heart. Troilus and Cressida, 5. 3
Hector
is dead; there is no more to say. Troilus and Cressida, 5. 10