Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Random Quotations

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

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
I could prove God statistically.: George Gallup (1901 - 1984)
- More quotations on: [God] [Statistics]
I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech at Amherst College, October 26, 1963
- More quotations on: [America]
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
- More quotations on: [Children]
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
- More quotations on: [Life]
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion, Act 2
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
- More quotations on: [Truth]
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784), Supplement to Bougainville's 'Voyage,' 1796
It’s almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- More quotations on: [Death]
September tries its best to have us forget summer.: Bern Williams
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), De Profundis, 1905
- More quotations on: [Quotations]
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.: Arlo Guthrie (1947 - )
- More quotations on: [Light]
Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.: Louise Beal
Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.: Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
- More quotations on: [Grief]
A single day is enough to make us a little larger.: Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)
- More quotations on: [Time]
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.: Steven Wright (1955 - )