Random Quotes

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Jay Leno American Comedian

I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it.

Patsy Cline American Musician

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American Poet

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James American Philosopher

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

William Osler Canadian Scientist

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Margaret Drabble English Novelist

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

Vincente Minnelli American Director

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Jupiter Hammon American Poet

To see and be acquainted with strangers, in especial with men in honour and authority.

Thomas Cavendish English Explorer

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

Anne Bronte British Novelist

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

Steve Guttenberg American Actor

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

Bill Paxton American Actor

I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.

Lisa Kudrow American Actress

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

Henny Youngman American Comedian

A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be.

Thomas Fuller English Clergyman

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Henry David Thoreau American Author

Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own.

Edwin Louis Cole American Author

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

B. Carroll Reece American Politician

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Conrad Veidt German Actor

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

George Jean Nathan American Editor