Random Quotations

The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below .

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.
[info][add][mail]
David Shore, House M.D., Three Stories, 2004
Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
[info][add][mail]
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
[info][add][mail]
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
[info][add][mail]
Charles Kuralt
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
[info][add][mail]
Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), What the Dead Men Say, 1954
Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.
[info][add][mail]
Robert Townsend
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
[info][add][mail]
Captain J. A. Hadfield
Allowing children to fight their own battles is one of the hardest parenting skills to learn.
[info][add][mail]
Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
[info][add][mail]
May Sarton
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.
[info][add][mail]
Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.
[info][add][mail]
Charlize Theron, acceptance speech at Golden Globe Awards, 2004
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
[info][add][mail]
Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962), to a young physicist
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
[info][add][mail]
James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'
[info][add][mail]
Jeff Foxworthy
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
[info][add][mail]
Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
[info][add][mail]
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
[info][add][mail]
P. D. James
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
[info][add][mail]
Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
[info][add][mail]
Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.
[info][add][mail]
Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
from these collections:

MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

Select one or more collections and press the button above to get a new set of random quotations. You can also choose a different number of quotations. View the Descriptions of the Collections for more details.