Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Random Quotations

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

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), 'Morals,' 100 A.D.
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- More quotations on: [God]
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.: Unknown
Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.: Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite.: Liz Friedman, House M.D., Hunting, 2005
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!: Laurie Anderson
A joke's a very serious thing.: Charles Churchill, "The Ghost", 1762
In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.: Ann Richards
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
- More quotations on: [Truth]
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.: Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
- More quotations on: [Time] [Wealth]
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- More quotations on: [Education]
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.: Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.: Margaret Bonnano
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of the Island, 1915
Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off.: Ellen DeGeneres
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- More quotations on: [Advice]