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 - The Winter's Tale Quotes, Famous Quotations
When
daffodils begin to peer,
With heigh! the doxy over the dale,
Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year;
For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The Winter's Tale, 4. 2
While
we lie tumbling in the hay. The Winter's Tale, 4. 2
A
snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. The Winter's Tale, 4. 2
Jog
on, jog on, the foot-path way,
And merrily hent the stile-a:
A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a. The Winter's Tale, 4. 2
For
you there's rosemary and rue; these keep
Seeming and savour all the winter long. The Winter's Tale, 4. 3
The
fairest flowers o' the season
Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors,
Which some call nature's bastards. The Winter's Tale, 4. 3
Here's
flowers for you;
Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram;
The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun
And with him rises weeping. The Winter's Tale, 4. 3
O
Proserpina,
For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall
From Dis's waggon! daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty. The Winter's Tale, 4. 3
Pale
primroses,
That die unmarried, ere they can behold
Bright Phœbus in his strength,-a malady
Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and
The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,
The flower-de-luce being one. The Winter's Tale, 4. 3
Each
your doing,
So singular in each particular,
Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,
That all your acts are queens. The Winter's Tale, 2. 1
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