Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.
- Lord Falkland (1610 - 1643)
- There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
- Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003
- I improve on misquotation.
- Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
- America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
- Peter De Vries
- Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916), from his essay about the rules of writing
- Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert Service (1874 - 1958)
- Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Hocus Pocus
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