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.
- For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
- The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- P. B. Medawar (1915 - )
- I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - )
- There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
- Anatole Broyard
- The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
- Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
- I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
- Jewish Proverb
- Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
- Will Cuppy
- There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Divinatione
- Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
|
![[info]](/icon_info.gif){kind=icon}
![[add]](/icon_plus.gif){kind=icon}
![[mail]](/icon_email.gif){kind=icon}
![[note]](/icon_note.gif){kind=icon}