Sponsor |  Blueeyez | Sep 23, 2004 8:33pm | | The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. |
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Sponsor | | anb | Sep 24, 2004 7:34am | A. Thomas Carlyle
Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881)
Q. "Damn the torpedoes! Go ahead!" (possible paraphrase) |
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Sponsor | | HumbertHumbert | Sep 24, 2004 8:18am | Rear Admiral David Farragut, US Navy
Q: "I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." |
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Sponsor | | Blueeyez | Sep 25, 2004 5:44am | Charles De Gaulle
Q: "Often there is eloquence in a silent look." |
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Sponsor | | anb | Sep 27, 2004 7:46am | | 4: Just looked it up....can't find author, just says "Latin quote"...tricky, Blueeyez! |
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Sponsor | | Blueeyez | Sep 27, 2004 3:48pm | No no! It's Ovid _Ars Amatoria_!
Q: Music helps not the toothache. |
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Sponsor | | anb | Sep 28, 2004 9:59am | A. George Herbert - interesting, but it does soothe the savage beast
Q. "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes"
(I love this o... Whoops just pricked my thumb, ouch, uh oh, look out!) |
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Sponsor | | prozacmilkshake | Sep 28, 2004 10:04am | A: Shakespeare, Macbeth
Q: "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." |
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Sponsor | | jhanajian | Sep 28, 2004 1:05pm | Shakespeare, Hamlet
O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
My tables, --meet it is I set it down...
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain!
At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark. |
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Sponsor | | anb | Sep 30, 2004 9:50am | A. Well, that would also be Hamlet.
Q. "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." |
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