Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Random Quotations

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

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- More quotations on: [Failure]
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
- More quotations on: [Heroes] [Responsibility]
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.: Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002), in Fast Company
- More quotations on: [Hope]
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.: Chinese Proverb
- More quotations on: [Proverbs]
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.: Doug Larson
- More quotations on: [Cars]
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.: John Witherspoon (1723 - 1794)
- More quotations on: [Books]
Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, The Five Worst Places to Vomit, 09-04-12
- More quotations on: [Parents]
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
- More quotations on: [Freedom]
[Spring is] a true reconstructionist.: Henry Timrod
- More quotations on: [Spring]
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "Is Shakespeare Dead?"
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), An Essay on Criticism, 1711
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.: Lester J. Pourciau
- More quotations on: [Committees]
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.: Henry Allen
- More quotations on: [Civilization]
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.: Robert Anton Wilson
- More quotations on: [Conservatives] [Liberals]
People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mister Sandman, 1994
- More quotations on: [Sex]
Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up.: David Shore, House M.D., DNR, 2004
The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.: Vaclav Havel (1936 - )
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.: Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984