Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Random Quotations

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

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.: Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- More quotations on: [Flowers]
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Be neither too remote nor too familiar.: Prince Charles (1948 - ), of Wales
all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.: Dale Carnegie
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
- More quotations on: [Quotations]
My Karma ran over your dogma.: Unknown
Trade your secrets and become who you are.: Frank Warren, PostSecret, 09-06-08
- More quotations on: [Secrets]
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.: Toni Morrison (1931 - ), Beloved
- More quotations on: [Love]
We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.: Kanye West
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny.: Albert Ellis
A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.: Leon Tec, M.D.
Do not consider painful what is good for you.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.: John Wooden (1910 - )
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.: Adrian Mitchell
- More quotations on: [Poetry]
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
- More quotations on: [Philosophy]
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.: Brendan Gill
- More quotations on: [Life]
I have seen the future and it doesn't work.: Robert Fulford
- More quotations on: [The Future]
Always be a little kinder than necessary.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.: Margo Kaufman