Random Quotations

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

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
[info][add][mail]
Joey Adams
A finished person is a boring person.
[info][add][mail]
Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
[info][add][mail]
Tom Robbins (1936 - )
We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
[info][add][mail]
Etty Hillesum, O Magazine, October 2002
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
[info][add][mail]
Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
[info][add][mail]
Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
[info][add][mail]
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
[info][add][mail]
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.
[info][add][mail]
Greg Garcia, Raising Hope, Dead Tooth, 09-28-10
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
[info][add][mail]
Maxine Waters, in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, 1989
We are always the same age inside.
[info][add][mail]
Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
[info][add][mail]
Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Notebooks, 1912
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
[info][add][mail]
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love, 1978
If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
[info][add][mail]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
[info][add][mail]
Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
[info][add][mail]
Ellis Peters
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
[info][add][mail]
Jose Marti
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
[info][add][mail]
Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
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.
[info][add][mail]
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
[info][add][mail]
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
from these collections:

MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

Select one or more collections and press the button above to get a new set of random quotations. You can also choose a different number of quotations. View the Descriptions of the Collections for more details.