Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Random Quotations

The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below .

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.: Catherine de Hueck Doherty
- More quotations on: [Relaxation]
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness"
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Wearing White Clothes speech, 1907
- More quotations on: [Opinions]
When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.: Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 12, 2003
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.: Peter McArthur
- More quotations on: [Respect]
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.: Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- More quotations on: [Learning]