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.
- The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
- Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
- Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
- J. Bartlett Brebner
- A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
- Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953), Farewell my Youth (1943)
- Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
- Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
- Dalton Camp
- Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
- Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)
- No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
- Sir Frederick G. Banting (1891 - 1941)
- We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
|
![[info]](/icon_info.gif){kind=icon}
![[add]](/icon_plus.gif){kind=icon}
![[mail]](/icon_email.gif){kind=icon}
![[note]](/icon_note.gif){kind=icon}