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 - King Lear Quotes, Famous King Lear Quotations
When
we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools. King Lear, 4. 6
Mine
enemy's dog,
Though he had bit me, should have stood that night
Against my fire. King Lear, 4. 7
Thou
art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
Upon a wheel of fire. King Lear, 4. 7
I
am a very foolish fond old man,
Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;
And, to deal plainly,
I fear I am not in my perfect mind. King Lear, 4. 7
Men
must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither;
Ripeness is all. King Lear, 5. 2
Come,
let's away to prison:
We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,
And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies. King Lear, 5. 3
Talk
of court news; and we'll talk with them too,
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;
And take upon 's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,
In a walled prison, packs and sects of great ones,
That ebb and flow by the moon. King Lear, 5. 3
Upon
such sacrifices, my Cordelia,
The gods themselves throw incense. King Lear, 5. 3
The
gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us. King Lear, 5. 3
Her
voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. King Lear, 5. 3