Category: Quotations

We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference

Unless our desire for human compassion is stronger than our desire to be right, to be secure or to belong, love will elude us.Marsha Sinetar

I feel horrible that, once again, someone has invaded my privacy.Hotel heiress and professional celebrity Paris Hilton, in an interview with US Weekly magazine, on the posting of the contents of her cell-phone address book on the Internet

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere.  Self-pity gets you nowhere.  One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — making the most of one’s best.Harry Emerson Fosdick

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974)

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.Thomas Jefferson

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832