Random Quotations

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

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
[info][add][mail]
Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
[info][add][mail]
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
[info][add][mail]
Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
[info][add][mail]
Halifax
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
[info][add][mail]
Sol Hurok
My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.
[info][add][mail]
Jane Goodall (1934 - )
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
[info][add][mail]
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
[info][add][mail]
Lenin (1870 - 1924)
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
[info][add][mail]
Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
[info][add][mail]
William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)
Virtue is its own punishment.
[info][add][mail]
Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960)
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
[info][add][mail]
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
[info][add][mail]
Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
[info][add][mail]
Glaser and Way
There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.
[info][add][mail]
Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
[info][add][mail]
Robert Orben
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
[info][add][mail]
Steven Wright (1955 - )
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
[info][add][mail]
Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.
[info][add][mail]
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
[info][add][mail]
Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien
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.