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 - Sonnets, Poems - Quotes, Famous Quotations
So
on the tip of his subduing tongue
All kinds of arguments and questions deep,
All replication prompt, and reason strong,
For his advantage still did wake and sleep.
To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,
He had the dialect and different skill,
Catching all passion in his craft of will. A Lover's Complaint
O
father, what a hell of witchcraft lies
In the small orb of one particular tear. A Lover's Complaint
Crabbed
age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care. The Passionate Pilgrim, No. 12
Age,
I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee. The Passionate Pilgrim, No. 12
Have
you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for naught? The Passionate Pilgrim, No. 14
If
the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry
it had so noble a godfather. Venus and Adonis
Hunting
he loved, but love he laughed to scorn. Venus and Adonis
'Bid
me discourse, I will enchant thine ear,
Or, like a fairy, trip upon the green,
Or, like a nymph, with long dishevelled hair,
Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen:
Love is a spirit all compact of fire,
Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. Venus
and Adonis
Love
comforteth like sunshine after rain. Venus and Adonis
For
he being dead, with him is beauty slain,
And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again. Venus and Adonis