Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Random Quotations

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

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- More quotations on: [Actions]
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...: Bell Hooks
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.: James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
- More quotations on: [Character]
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.: Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
- More quotations on: [Language]
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?: Dick Clark
- More quotations on: [Humor]
If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.: Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.: M. C. Richards
- More quotations on: [Poetry]
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.: Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - ), "A Wreath of Roses"
- More quotations on: [Patience]
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), Lynn on Ideas
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
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
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.': Steven Wright (1955 - )
- More quotations on: [Sleep]
Reality continues to ruin my life.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin and Hobbes
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.: Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
- More quotations on: [Teaching]
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)
- More quotations on: [Jealousy]
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.: Philip Guedalla (1889 - 1944)