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The "Best of" Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~zimm/gibbon.html

This set of quotes, some quite lengthy, have been posted to the Web by Mark Zimmerman, who finds Gibbon's work to be quite relevant to current events.

Advertising Quotes

http://www.utexas.edu/coc/adv/research/quotes/

Jef Richards, an Advertising Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has collected here a set of quotations about the world of advertising. The Index includes over 60 subcategories, ranging from Advertising Is…to Wear Out. Highlights along the way include Billboards, Critics, Evil, Fantasy & Dreams, Honesty, Manipulation, Morality & Ethics, Puffery, Sex, and Value.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/

The Ninth Edition of John Bartlett's famous book, published in 1901, has been converted to HTML format and posted to the Web by Project Bartleby, an extensive Web-based literature library established by Columbia University.

Bon Mots from the Supermodels

http://www.sils.umich.edu/~sooty/thoughts.html

This witty site of quotations from the glamorous proves once again that you don’t need to be an intellectual to be internationally famous.

Conventional Wisdom: Selected Quotations Illustrating the Illusions of Popular History

http://nickel.ucs.indiana.edu/~mtmurphy/cw.html

This set of quotations debunks popular notions about history and society. Among the subjects are The Fall of the Roman Empire, Columbus and the Spanish Conquest, Pocahontas, Our Founding Fathers, A Day That Will Live in Infamy, Lucky Lindy, and The March of Science. For example, the page's author uses Abraham Lincoln's own quotations to prove that he once supported slavery.

Dave's Searchable Quote Database

http://www2.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/cgi-bin/cgiuser/~lillyda/bin/search.cgi

This forms-based database contains over 6500 quotes. You can search them by subject, such as death or taxes, or you can select to have the form randomly draw a quote from the database.

Don's Doctor Who Interesting Quote Archive

http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/dasmith/Who/Quotes.html

This frames-based archive is accessible only on Netscape Navigator 2.0. The quotes originated on the British low-tech science fiction show Doctor Who. Topics include art, history, the human race, love, politics, and other pithy topics.

Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

http://marin.org/parks/flw.quotes.html

Read on as the master architect expounds on architecture, government, nature, and life. This site is part of a larger Frank Lloyd Wright page offered by the Marin County (California) Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Labor Quotes Page

http://www.igc.apc.org/laborquotes/

LaborNet, a community of labor unions and activists using the Internet to communicate, gathered together this compendium of quotes about labor-related issues. Subjects include solidarity, strikes and other acts of civil disobedience, working conditions, negotiations, hope, attitudes of the rich and famous, oppression, politics and politicians, women in the labor movement, and class and inequality.

The Official Internet Quayle Quote List

http://www.xmission.com/~mwalker/DQ/quayle/qq/quayle.quotes.html

Okay, maybe we should finally be leaving our former vice-president alone, but when the material he's provided is so funny, how can you refuse to enjoy it? This collection is divided into a number of subcategories, making Quayle's comments on issues such as International Affairs easy to locate.

Outriders of Reality Reference Manual & Travel Guide

http://www.sols.on.ca/stuff/outriders.html

According to David Harvie, the "Chief Scout" of Outriders of Reality, this oddball listing of quotes "…is a collection of errant pieces of knowledge, quips of non-conventional wisdom found in graffiti, e-mail taglines, bumper stickers, buttons, and snatches of conversions heard while standing in fast-food checkout lines." Subjects are covered with irreverent humor.

Quotations Site

http://www.lexmark.com/data/quote.html

This collection of over 5,000 quotations is grouped into recent quotes, advice, great leaders, proverbial wisdom, sarcasm, annoying proverbs, malapropisms, random visions, poetry, aphorisms, definitions, miscellaneous or anonymous quotes, and selections from William Shakespeare and comedian Steven Wright. This site also maintains an extensive collection of links to other quotation pages.

Quotations About Libraries and Librarians

http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/I/humour/author.htm

The International Federation of Libraries Associations and Institutions has put together this selection of quotes from authors, statesmen, and celebrities regarding the importance of libraries.

Quotations of William Blake

http://www.mcs.net/~jorn/html/blake.html

This page offers, in somewhat of a hodgepodge, a list of quotations by the radical poet.

Quotes, Quotes, and More Quotes

http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~dansac/quotes.html

Offering quotes from movies and song lyrics, this site also includes quotes about sex, music, love, and God.

Welcome to the Introspect Library

http://www.lasertone.com/~rc/il1.html

Here are gathered quotes written to inspire and motivate. The page is billed as "a place for quiet inspiration and meditation."

Zappa Quote of the Day

http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~heederik/zappa/quote/

Offers a new random quote each day from one of the geniuses of rock music.