Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
- Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
- Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
- Johann K. Lavater
- Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
- Andy Rooney (1919 - )
- True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
- Erich Segal
- Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
- What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
- Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
- Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994), From "Betting on the Muse"
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