Miscellaneous quotes
973 quotes from 439 people
Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby Dick
Dorothy Parker1893–1967Caption written for Vogue 1916Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude.
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody—it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936With the Night MailTo sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox1850–1919Often credited to Abraham LincolnA radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Radio Address to the New York Herald Tribune Forum (26 October 1939)It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Prejudices, Second Series (1920) Ch. 1Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
?UnattributedOften credited to Emily DickinsonWe are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Introduction (1966)
