Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Random Quotations

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

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.: Chinese Proverb
All that counts in life is intention.: Andrea Bocelli, in TV Guide
This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- More quotations on: [Philosophy]
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- More quotations on: [Youth]
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.: John Blake
- More quotations on: [Conceit]
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.: Suze Orman, O Magazine, February 2003
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
- More quotations on: [Food]
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.: John Billings(Henry Wheeler Shaw)
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.: Edith Sodergran
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
- More quotations on: [Death] [Justice] [Duty]
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.: Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.: Madonna (1958 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
- More quotations on: [Fate]
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.: Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 5/22/89
Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- More quotations on: [Imagination] [Apathy]
We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.: Marie Beyon Ray
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)