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.
- Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
- The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
- A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
- Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
- I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.
- Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
- I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
- Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
- If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
- George Aiken
- Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
- Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950), A Guide to Men, 1922
- Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1
- One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
|
![[info]](/icon_info.gif){kind=icon}
![[add]](/icon_plus.gif){kind=icon}
![[mail]](/icon_email.gif){kind=icon}
![[note]](/icon_note.gif){kind=icon}