Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page

Random Quotations

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

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?: George Price
- More quotations on: [Sanity]
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
- More quotations on: [Quotations]
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
A smile is the shortest distance between two people.: Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.: Dorothy Sarnoff
- More quotations on: [Listening]
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
All my possessions for a moment of time.: Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603)
- More quotations on: [Time]
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- More quotations on: [Work]
Health is not valued till sickness comes.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- More quotations on: [Health]
If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- More quotations on: [Decisions]
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness"
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- More quotations on: [Memory]
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.: Joe Theismann, Former quarterback
- More quotations on: [Sports]
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
- More quotations on: [Work]
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3
- More quotations on: [Ability]
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.: Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983), quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
- More quotations on: [Acting]
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.: Ralph Charell