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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Get to know Ovid's quotes



Publius Ovidius Naso, also known as Ovid, was a Roman poet considered
as one of the three canonical poets of Latin Literature
(along with Horace and Virgil).






Here are Ovid's quotes:



1. "At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time."

2. "Fortune and love favor the brave."

3. "Endure and persist, this pain will turn good by and by."

4. "The bold adventurer succeeds the best."

5. "Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish."

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Quotes from Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, a Spanish playwright, novelist and poet. His legendary success, the novel “Don Quixote”, first published in 1605, has been released in 700 editions and translated in major languages.


Here are some quotes from Miguel de Cervantes:


1. "Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. "


2. "Every man is the son of his own works."


3. "Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes."


4. "Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."


5. “Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Ruth Elizabeth Davis' quotes


Ruth Elizabeth Davis, better known to the world as Bette Davis was an American actress who ran a very successful career for 50 years. Her successful movies include The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), Now, Voyager (1942), Watch on the Rhine (1943), and The Corn Is Green (1945).

Here are her quotes:

1. "The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead."

2. "To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. "

3. "My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose."

4. "I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. "

5. "Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."