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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)
- The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- Little by little, one travels far.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
- Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.
- Noah Porter (1811 - 1892)
- This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
- A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness"
- If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.
- Matthew Trump, in Mother Earth News
- In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
- Russell Green
- Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
- If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- This life gets bitterly cold. Sometimes you just need to cling to the person that you can claw your way out of the dark with.
- Chris Dingess, Being Human, Wouldn't It Be Nice (If We Were Human), 2011
- Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
- Patricia Neal
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
- 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
- I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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