Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- 'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.
- George Ade (1866 - 1944), "The Steel Box", 1898
- Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
- Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)
- When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
- John Gunther (1901 - 1970)
- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Self-Reliance
- Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
- Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995)
Can't find what you're looking for? Try browsing our list of quotations by subject..
|
![[info]](/icon_info.gif){kind=icon}
![[add]](/icon_plus.gif){kind=icon}
![[mail]](/icon_email.gif){kind=icon}
![[note]](/icon_note.gif){kind=icon}