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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.
- Berton Averre
- A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
- Doc Searls, Doc Searls Weblog, 12-02-06
- Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
- John le Carre (1931 - ), "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy", The New York Times, May 8, 1974
- I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 11-29-2006
- When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
- The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
- When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
- People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
- An English Professor, Ohio University
- I am just going outside and may be some time.
- Captain Lawrence Oates (1880 - 1912), last words
- Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!
- Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan, Big Bang Theory, The Agreement Dissection, 2011
- When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
- Gracie Allen (1906 - 1964)
- Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
- Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
- Judy Garland (1922 - 1969), to her daughter, Liza Minelli
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