Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Random Quotations

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

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- More quotations on: [Economics]
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.: Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.: Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
- More quotations on: [Laughter]
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.: Berthold Auerbach (1812 - 1882)
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- More quotations on: [Music]
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.: Pablo Casals (1876 - 1973), O Magazine, October 2003
- More quotations on: [Age]
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- More quotations on: [Humility]
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.: John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven"
- More quotations on: [Children]
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?: Rose Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
- More quotations on: [Birds]
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.: Unknown
- More quotations on: [Stupidity]
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- More quotations on: [Quotations]
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-2003
- More quotations on: [Listening]
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.: Sir William Drummond
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.: Margaret Atwood (1939 - ), Cat's Eye, 1988
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.: Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996)
- More quotations on: [Men And Women]
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.: Wendell Berry
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.: Unknown
I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.: Althea Gibson (1927 - 2003)
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), "Catch-22"