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.
- Life is short; live it up.
- Khrushchev
- Live simply that others might simply live.
- Elizabeth Seaton
- You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935), (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
- When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
- Colin Powell (1937 - )
- The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
- Judge John Kane, US District Court
- The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.
- Anonymous
- It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937)
|