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.
- What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist
- Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
- Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
- Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.
- Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper editor
- Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
- John Updike (1932 - )
- This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.
- Unknown
- Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
- Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
- #3546. Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.
- California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
- Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
|
![[info]](/icon_info.gif){kind=icon}
![[add]](/icon_plus.gif){kind=icon}
![[mail]](/icon_email.gif){kind=icon}
![[note]](/icon_note.gif){kind=icon}