Quotations Book - Famous Quotations

"This site has 43,061 quotations by 7,960 authors in 1,328 subjects. We also have 4,082 proverbs and 72,299 fortunes in 72 collections."

If you're ever stuck for some words of wisdom, you'll find something here. You can search by author or subject. If you want, you can even subscribe to their RSS feed.

A few random quotes:

Mark Twain -

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."

Voltaire -

"Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills."

Friedrich Nietzsche -

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."