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.
- Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), (attributed)
- People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
- Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
- For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.
For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. - Edwin Teale
- For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech
- There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
- Time as he grows old teaches all things.
- Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Prometheus Bound
- Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.
- Pericles (490 BC - 429 BC), from Plutarch, Lives
- Time eases all things.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Oedipus Rex
- A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
Can't find what you're looking for? Try browsing our list of quotations by subject..
|