Quotes of the Week - May 5, 2008:
"I am so sorry. I had no idea." -- Elizabeth Fritzl, mother
of the girl kept prisoner in a basement in Austria by her father for 24
years.
"Some of the comments that Rev Wright has made offend me, and I understand
why they offend the American people. He does not speak for me. He does
not speak for the American people." -- Barack Obama on his old pastor.
"I am sure I had it. It's why men want to bonk everything that moves
." -- Singer Chris de Burgh explaining how a mid-life crisis made
him want to have sex with his children's nanny.
Hillary Clinton is talking tough. She said if Israel is ever attacked
by Iran, she would obliterate Iran. Although, she does admire the Iranians
for stoning adulterers. -- Chatshow host Jay Leno.
Authors:
Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice Quotes, Famous Quotations
In
sooth I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you. The Merchant of Venice, 1. 1
Nature
hath framed strange fellows in her time. The Merchant of Venice, 1. 1
I
hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,-
A stage, where every man must play a part;
And mine a sad one. The Merchant of Venice, 1. 1
I
am Sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! The Merchant of Venice, 1. 1
I
do know of these
That therefore only are reputed wise
For saying nothing. The Merchant of Venice, 1. 1
Fish
not, with this melancholy bait,
For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. The Merchant of Venice, 1. 1
Gratiano
speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all
Venice. The Merchant of Venice, 1. 1
In
Belmont is a lady richly left,
And she is fair, fairer than the word,
Of wondrous virtues. The Merchant of Venice, 1. 1
They
are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve
with nothing. The Merchant of Venice, 1. 2
If
to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels
had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can
easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one
of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The Merchant of Venice, 1. 2