Strange Quotes

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. (Kahlil Gibran)
Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts? View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. View quote
Samuel Pepys
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange. View quote
Daniel Webster
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream. View quote
Jack Kerouac
It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult. View quote
Richard Brautigan
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend. View quote
James Russell Lowell
A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things. View quote
Steve Wozniak
Politics makes strange bedfellows. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it. View quote
Stephen Vizinczey
Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas. (George Gershwin)
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others. View quote
Bolesław Prus
All things must change to something new, to something strange. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Taken out of context I must seem so strange. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. View quote
Elizabeth Taylor
I don't like animals. It's a strange thing, I don't like men and I don't like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me. View quote
Samuel Beckett
And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. (Jim Morrison)
A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. View quote
William Shakespeare
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. View quote
Toni Morrison
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. View quote
Mark Twain