Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Random Quotations

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

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.: Woody Allen (1935 - ), My Speech to the Graduates
Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.: Robertson Davies
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.: Martina Navratilova (1956 - )
- More quotations on: [Victory]
You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
- More quotations on: [Passion]
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.: Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
- More quotations on: [Evil]
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.: Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958)
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.: Leo Burnett
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
- More quotations on: [Lies]
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- More quotations on: [Freedom]
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.: Diana Spencer
- More quotations on: [Kindness]
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.: Jascha Heifetz (1901 - 1987)
- More quotations on: [Argument]
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962), to a young physicist
I always like a good math solution to any love problem.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Take Me Out To The Ballgame, 1999
- More quotations on: [Love]
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- More quotations on: [Dreams]
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but raptors are pretty dang scary.: Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
- More quotations on: [Honor] [Morality]
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.: the Dhammapada