Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Random Quotations

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

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.: William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.: George Bush (1924 - ), "All the Best, George Bush"
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.: Margaret Bonnano
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), De Profundis, 1905
- More quotations on: [Quotations]
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.: Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- More quotations on: [Age]
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.: Ellis Peters
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.: David Coblitz
- More quotations on: [Committees]
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- More quotations on: [Family] [Dance]
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
- More quotations on: [Friendship]
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), "The Crack-Up" (1936)
- More quotations on: [Morning]
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
- More quotations on: [Silence] [Mistakes]
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
This book fills a much-needed gap.: Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
- More quotations on: [Books]
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.: Benjamin H. Brewster (1816 - 1888)
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
- More quotations on: [Advertising]
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, October 26, 1939
- More quotations on: [Lies]
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.: Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
- More quotations on: [Discovery]