Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Quotes of the Day

[Today's Quotes] [Archive Index]

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 20, 2009

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.: B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), Cosmos (Blues for a Red Planet)
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.: Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)

Subscribe to Quotes of the Day with our Email Service or with your newsreader: (what's this?)

Follow us on Twitter and get more daily quotes!

Don't forget to stop by the Motivational Quotes of the Day.

Starling Fitness: Fitness weblog from the authors of The Quotations Page

Hear Motivational Quotes set to music at Affirmation Station

Starling Travel: Travel weblog from the authors of The Quotations Page

Find out what happened Today in History (Scope Systems)

You can include these quotations on your own Web page.

Read classic books, essays, plays, and poetry online at The Literature Page.

Improve your vocabulary with Vocab Vitamins - a new word each day

If an author's name is highlighted, you can click it for more quotations by that author. Click on a quotation for more information about it, or click on the icons next to each quotation:

View further information about the quote or link to it on its own page
Email the quotation to yourself, or to a friend
View notes about the quotation

Note: These quotes are randomly selected from my collection by an automatic routine once a day. If you want more quotes, try the Quotations by Author page to browse our entire collection, or try the Random Quotations Page, which chooses new quotes each time you load it.