Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
- Bill Hoest
- 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
- Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
- J. G. C. Brainard
- The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- Running cross country is the closest man will ever get to flying.
- Joseph Vanderstel
- It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
- I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
- E. V. Lucas
- Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
- Jim Horning
- Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart (1929 - )
- I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
- The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
- Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
- I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
- John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)
- It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
- William G. McAdoo (1863 - 1941)
- You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
- John J. Plomp
- Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
- We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
- W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)
- Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
|
|