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document.write("Famous Quotes ") function GetRandomQuote() { me = GetRandomQuote.arguments; return me[Math.floor(Math.random() * me.length)]; } var RandomQuote = GetRandomQuote( "Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) English Baron, Politician, Novelist", "I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. - Jane Austen (1775-1817) English Novelist", "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. - Voltaire (1694-1778) [Francois-Marie Arouet] French Philosopher, Historian, Writer", "Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. - Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915) American Writer, Printer, Businessman", "You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. - Stephen R. Covey (1932~) American Consultant, Author", "Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst. - Francis Herbert Bradley (1846-1924) English Philosopher, Absolute Idealist", "Never look down on anybody, unless you're helping them up. - Rev. Jesse Jackson (1941~) American Activist, Clergyman, Politician", "Friendships are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail. - Fran Lebowitz (1950~) American Journalist", "A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist", "The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety. - Confucius (551-479BC) Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher", "It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. - Moliere (1622-1673) [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] French Dramatist, Actor", "Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity. - Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) French Writer, Filmmaker, Artist", "There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. - Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Russian-born American Writer, Philosopher", "The greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fall. - Confucius (551-479BC) Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher", "Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young. - Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish Poet, Songwriter", "The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. - Jean Kerr (1923~) American Humorist, Author, Playwright", "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? - Rabbi Hillel (30BC-9AD) Jewish Sage, Teacher", "The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. - Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English Satirical Poet, Critic, Translator", "The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Ukrainian-born English Novelist", "Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) 35th U.S. President (1961-63)", "I am not concerned that you have fallen - I am concerned that you arise. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th U.S. President (1861-65)", "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German Philosopher, Poet", "A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. - Aesop (620-560BC) Legendary Greek Fabulist", "Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction. - Ashleigh Brilliant (1933~) British-born American Writer, Epigrammist, Cartoonist", "Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around. - Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) Irish-born English Author, Poet, Playwright", "If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself. - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French Scientist, Religious Philosopher", "The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it. - Stanislaw Jerszy Lec (1909-1966) Polish Aphorist, Poet, Satirist", "It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot. - Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) 33rd U.S. President (1945-53)", "We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. - Henry Bolingbroke (1678-1751) English Statesman, Writer", "A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. - Mohandas K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian Political, Spiritual Leader", "Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. - Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) [Stephen] English Fiction Writer, Critic", "What is wanted is not the will to believe but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite. - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist", "What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German Physicist, Satirist", "A woman is as old as she looks to a man who likes to look at her. - Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) American Humorist, Journalist", "We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. - Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American Writer, Lecturer", "Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English Author, Lexicographer", "A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it. - Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) English Broadcaster, Essayist, Journalist", "Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. - William James (1842-1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist", "The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. - Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss Psychologist, Psychiatrist", "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. - Anthony Robbins (1960~) American Author, Speaker", "Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is Genius. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish-born English Dramatist, Novelist, Critic", "What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Author, Poet, Wit, Dramatist", "Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right. - Kurt Herbert Adler (1905-1988) Opera Director", "A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. - George Eliot (1819-1880) [Mary Ann Evans] English Novelist, Poet", "All of us need to grow continuously in our lives. - Les Brown (1945~) American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer", "People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. - Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American Poet, Critic, Translator", "Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German Philosopher, Poet", "If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it. - Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) American Dancer, Feminist", "The web of our life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor", "Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis in tiny and he cannot spell. - Erica Mann Jong (1942~) American Author, Poet", "How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first? - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish-born English Dramatist, Novelist, Critic", "Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English Author, Lexicographer", "For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001) American Aviator, Writer", "Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real. - Deepak Chopra (1947~) East-Indian born American MD, Author, Lecturer", "Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913) American Author, Editor, Journalist", "The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakable egoism. - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist", "Truth has beauty, power and necessity. - Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1908-1984) New Zealand Novelist, Educational Philosopher", "When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money. - Frank McKinney 'Kin' Hubbard (1868-1930) American Caricaturist, Humorist, Journalist", "Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply. - Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1908-1984) New Zealand Novelist, Educational Philosopher", "In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. - Helen Rowland (1876-1950) American Journalist", "If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. - Abigail Van Buren (1918-2002) [Dear Abby] American Journalist, Columnist", "The true way to be decieved is to think oneself more clever than others. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French Classical Writer, Moralist", "Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet, Essayist", "Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly. - Dr. Edwin Land (1909-1991) American Scientist, Inventor", "Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean. - Confucius (551-479BC) Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher", "Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish-born English Dramatist, Novelist, Critic", "Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul! They are its actions, but they are not its essence. - Akhenaton (~1362BC) Monotheist, King of Egypt (1379-62)", "Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913) American Author, Editor, Journalist", "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. - George Eliot (1819-1880) [Mary Ann Evans] English Novelist, Poet", "Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. - Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet", "I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be daring as well. For all serious daring starts from within. - Eudora Welty (1909-2001) American Author", "Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913) American Author, Editor, Journalist", "To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target. - Ashleigh Brilliant (1933~) British-born American Writer, Epigrammist, Cartoonist", "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste. - Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer", "The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. - Joseph Ernst Renan (1823-1892) French Historian, Philologist", "There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist", "A specialist is one who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913) American Author, Editor, Journalist", "We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet, Essayist", "Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. - Saul Bellow (1915-2005) Canadian-born American Novelist, Author", "Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. - Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) American Speaker, Motivational Writer", "Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty. - Stanislaw Jerszy Lec (1909-1966) Polish Aphorist, Poet, Satirist", "Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing. - Confucius (551-479BC) Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher", "Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. - Dr. Joyce Brothers (1927~) American Psychologist, TV, Radio Personality", "Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist", "For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? - Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian Epic Poet, Philosopher", "Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. - Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) American Educator, Writer, Social Reformer", "Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Poet, Playwright, Actor", "Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. - Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Austrian Physician, Founder of Psychoanalysis", "One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Author, Poet, Wit, Dramatist", "A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That's the basic spelling that every woman ought to know. - Mistinguette (1875-1956) French Actor", "The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. - Josh Billings (1818-1885) [Henry Wheeler Shaw] American Humorist", "If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist", "The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later. - Confucius (551-479BC) Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher", "I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible. - Joseph De Maistre (1753-1821) French Diplomat, Philosopher", "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. - Seneca (4BC-65AD) Spanish-born Roman Statesman, Philosopher, Moralist", "Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. - Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Spanish Painter, Printmaker", "A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself. - Dr. Laura Schlessinger (1947~) American Family Therapist", "You will stay young as long as you learn, form new habits, and don't mind being contradicted. - Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) Austrian Novelist", "The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist", "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti (1940~) Italian-born American Auto Racer"); document.write (RandomQuote) document.write(" |