Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Random Quotations

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

You never find yourself until you face the truth.: Pearl Bailey (1918 - 1990)
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.: Jeanne Moreau
- More quotations on: [Love]
Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250: Harper's Index, October 1989
- More quotations on: [Brain]
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.: Robert A. Humphrey
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.: Natalie Goldberg
- More quotations on: [Relaxation] [Stress]
People are always trying to [mess] up other people's live's by telling lies about 'em. You wanna really [mess] somebody's life up? Tell the truth about 'em. They ain't never gonna be the same.: Brian Buckner, True Blood, Bad Blood, 2010
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.: O. Henry (1862 - 1910)
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.: Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
- More quotations on: [Photography]
Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.: David Letterman (1947 - )
Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), 'Morituri Salutamus,' 1875
- More quotations on: [Books]
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.: Jackie Mason (1934 - )
- More quotations on: [Money]
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), "The Peter Principle"
- More quotations on: [Competence]
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.: Isabelle Eberhardt
- More quotations on: [The Past] [Character]
You can observe a lot just by watching.: Yogi Berra (1925 - ), Berra's Law