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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
- Joseph Roux
- It's a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, but few are chosen.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
- Boxing is just show business with blood.
- Frank Bruno
- There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXLVII
- One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.
- John Rogers, Kung Fu Monkey, 06-25-11
- It's all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end.
- Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003
- I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
- Lech Walesa (1943 - )
- The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), New York Times, October 4, 1953
- Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
- Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 08-06-08
- A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
- Phyllis Mcginley
- The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
- Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"
- So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
- Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
- Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
- The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
- Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
- Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
- Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
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