Random Quotes

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

R. Buckminster Fuller American Inventor

All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.

Ernst Mayr German Scientist

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Mark Twain American Author

We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.

Scott Ritter American Public Servant

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Colin Powell American Statesman

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Groucho Marx American Comedian

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

Leonard Woolf British Author

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

Marya Mannes American Journalist

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

Werner Herzog German Director

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Seamus Heaney Irish Poet

If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

Tom Seaver American Athlete

When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

Liberace American Entertainer

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Mohandas Gandhi Indian Leader

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Leo Buscaglia American Author

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Charles Horton Cooley American Sociologist

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

Judi Dench English Actress

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.

Joseph Jarman American Musician

So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.

Stewart Copeland American Musician

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

George Bernard Shaw Irish Dramatist

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Georg C. Lichtenberg German Scientist