Random Quotes

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

George Bernard Shaw Irish Dramatist

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

Roger von Oech

I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game.

Jamie Redknapp English Athlete

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

John Owen English Theologian

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

Joseph Howe Canadian Politician

Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

Hans Frank German Public Servant

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

Samuel Butler British Poet

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

Bo Bennett American Businessman

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Mortimer Adler American Philosopher

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke American Poet

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

Julius Erving American Athlete

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi South African Leader

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

Gloria Swanson American Actress

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

Al Purdy Canadian Poet

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.

Smokey Robinson American Musician

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette French Novelist

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Herbert Samuel British Statesman

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar American Athlete

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Maurice Maeterlinck Belgian Dramatist