(281 quotes found)
“All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious”
Homer
“Family jokes, through rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive”
Stella Benson
“And how am I to face the odds, Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid, In a world I never made”
Alfred Edward Housman
“Strangers passing in the street By chance two separate glances meet And I am you and what I see is me. And do I take you by the hand And lead you through the land And help me understand The best I can”
Pink Floyd
“We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.”
R. D. Laing
“People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.”
David Letterman
“If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done this? we have no enemies”
Phyllis Diller
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.”
William Butler Yeats
“The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.”
Maggie Kuhn
