Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
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.
- Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859), address at Antioch College, 1859
- Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, September 26, 1712
- Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
- Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
- Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958
- The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
- Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), An Enemy of the People, 1882
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Conclusion, 1854
- Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932
- Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843
|
![[info]](/icon_info.gif){kind=icon}
![[add]](/icon_plus.gif){kind=icon}
![[mail]](/icon_email.gif){kind=icon}
![[note]](/icon_note.gif){kind=icon}