Weekly Quote and More

Quote of Week 1006

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:51:00 +0700

Ambrose Bierce
"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."

Quote of Week 1005

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 16:50:00 +0700

John le Carre
"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."

Quote of Week 1004

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:50:00 +0700

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
"A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck."

Quote of Week 1003

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:49:40 +0700

Voltaire
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

Quote of Week 1002

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:49:26 +0700

Samuel Johnson
"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult."

Quote of Week 1001

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:48:57 +0700

Will Rogers
"You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way."

Quote of Week 953

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:46:00 +0700

Laurence J. Peter
"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."

翻译: 经济学家是这样的一位专家: 他可以在未来知道为什么他以前的预言今天没有发生.

Quote of Week 952

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:41:00 +0700

Clive James
"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."

翻译: 在美国,每个人都有权利获得大学学位,即便他/她主修汉堡技术.

Quote of Week 951

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:40:14 +0700

E. Joseph Cossman
"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."

翻译: 障碍物是你把注意力从目标上移开之后看到的东西.

Quote of Week 950

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:38:44 +0700

G. K. Chesterton
"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."

翻译: 因为谬论变成了流行,所以他们就不再是谬论了.