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Famous Quotes - April 2006

Socrates - wives and happiness...

April 28th 2006 02:23
Socrates, a man with a bad wife...
“By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.” – Socrates (B.C.)

HA! Good one Socrates. Socrates was a Greek philosopher who lived in 470-399BC. In this quote, Socrates is essentially bagging his wife out as he says ‘if you get a bad [wife] you will become a philosopher’ – which he is. So she mustn’t have been a good wife then! I wonder if his wife knew of this quote at the time...


Socrates is best known outside philosophy for his death by drinking hemlock (a poisonous plant in the parsley family) after being found guilty of having interfered with the religion of Athens and of having corrupted its youth through his teachings. So it looks like it was Socrates that was bad, not his wife!
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Whinging kids.. shutup! A Harold Schonberg quote.

April 27th 2006 00:09
Annoying kids control the world!
“Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.” - Harold Schonberg.

Harold Schonberg was an American music critic and journalist, most notably for The New York Times, and I totally agree with his quote! It instantly reminds my of my 15 year old little sister who is always getting away with things, and my parents always seem to be letting her have a little more each time. They just can't be bothered anymore… which is why she seems to like demanding things an awful lot!

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Aesop's fables - the cat and the mice

April 25th 2006 23:08
“He who is once deceived is doubly cautious” - An Aesop Fable
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Orson Welles - majoring in mud pies!

April 24th 2006 22:15
Orson Welles on the radio in 1938
“They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.” – Orson Welles

George Orson Welles was a director of film and the theatre, as well as an actor, screenwriter, broadcaster and producer. His first feature film was Citizen Kane in 1941. The funny thing is, Mr Welles only lived till 1985, and I think there have been more weird and random courses being made up for study at universities since then. Has anyone seen how many hundreds of Arts subjects are available nowadays?
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Controlling women... Camille Paglia

April 24th 2006 00:52
Teenage boys... or men?
“Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.” - Camille Paglia

Camille Paglia is a University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies, and she tells us here that teenage boys are goaded (or aggravated) by their hormones and run in hordes as men are almost always controlled by women. Camille thinks that there is only a small gap between when boys are controlled by their mothers and when they are controlled by their wives. She does make a good point here, as I believe that many women do control or at least try to control their sons or husbands.
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The lead dog's fate - Richard Saunders

April 21st 2006 00:57
The lead dog is the first to fall....
"The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine." - Richard Saunders

This quote by Richard Saunders emphasises the risk and responsibility involved in being the leader, or boss. Although ‘the lead dog gets the best view’ it is the first to have to deal with issues and problems and in this extreme case, death. The ‘butt ugly’ view of the rest of the dogs probably refers to seeing the backsides of the ones in front of them, this could symbolise the viewing of the lead dog’s faults or perhaps just being aware that they are always behind the leader, and only ever second place.
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Protect your kernels - African Proverb

April 20th 2006 00:00
"Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off."
- African Proverb
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The love of a woman... or Jesse Metcalfe...

April 19th 2006 00:17
The modern symbol of L.O.V.E
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." - Anonymous

Awwwww… that’s beautiful. I always love hearing quotes of love from a man - well, I’m guessing it was a man. Anyway, it really is a lovely quote. It shows that love isn’t necessarily brought about by physical attraction but it is love, that sharing of an emotional connection, which makes a lover beautiful. Anyone who has ever felt this way can agree that when we truly love someone, any imperfection that would otherwise be obvious on say a friend or acquaintance isn’t noticeable, and their good qualities seem to grossly outweigh many of their faults. To put it bluntly, you could say ‘the sun shines out of their arse!’ But I’m not going to be that crude….
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John Wayne - Tomorrow is the most important thing

April 17th 2006 23:00
John Wayne, on a 2004 postage stamp.
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.” – John Wayne.

John Wayne was an American film actor who starred in many films, from the silent movies of the 1920s to the Westerns of the 1970s. This quote is quite remarkable, it’s telling us that each day begins afresh and flawless and it is us who can control it. ‘Tomorrow… hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday’, so we can rectify issues and bad habits and adjust our lives for the better.
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Geroge Burns' one hundred year quote

April 16th 2006 23:34
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"If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.” – George Burns

This US actor and comedian is playing with us. If you think about this quote for a second you’ll realise that the reason very few people die past the age of one hundred is because very few people live past the age of one hundred! Good one George! When he says ‘you’ve got it made’, this is supposedly because you have less of a chance of dying after you reach one hundred, which is obviously because most people would already be dead! But crikey, I reckon you’d have it made anyway, imagine living for that long? You’d witness so much. Different wars, political leaders, technology, fashion trends, etc, etc.
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Al Capone - Persuasion with a gun

April 14th 2006 00:01
"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." – Al Capone

This is a good one! Al Capone was an infamous American gangster in the 1920s and 1930s. As jokingly as the quote sounds, he is just underlining how charitable people can get when their lives are at stake. Most victims’s strong willed and stubborn attitudes turn to shreds once a gun is pointed at their face, no matter how old and worthless there life actually is. But I ask you this; what is it about death that we are all so scared about


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Jonathan Swift - keep money away from your heart!

April 13th 2006 00:09
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Money, keep it at a safe distance...


“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart” - Jonathan Swift


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Neil Armstrong's Moon Landing Blunder

April 12th 2006 00:13
One small step for... what?
“That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong.

Now we’ve all heard this one! Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, uttered this profound statement during his moon landing in July, 1969. Apparently he was so nervous at the time that he didn’t actually say what he would have rehearsed over and over. His speech was supposed to be “That’s one small step for a man…etc”. Of all speeches to bugger up, Neil decides to pick the first ever human moon landing


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Buddha Quote

April 11th 2006 01:14
Ancient painting of Buddha Akshobhya
Today’s quote by Buddha taps into our constant need to worry about the ''things that were, things that are, and some things… that have not yet come to pass…’' (can anyone guess what movie that quote is off?)

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." – Buddha


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Albert Einstein Quote

April 10th 2006 01:00
Albert Einstein
Einstein, with his famous haircut
Hello everyone! Welcome to the new “Famous Quotes” blog. Here, you will find profound quotes from the intelligent, the influential, the powerful and the plain, run-of-the-mill famous. The first one is from perhaps the most talked about man in Science, Albert Einstein.

"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper." – Albert Einstein


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