Brian H. Marston

<p>To add a quote, go to Quotes->Add New. Enter the citation (source or author) for the quote and the quote itself. You can use HTML in both the citation and the quote. For styling purposes, the post format defaults to “Quote.”</p>
<p>To add the widget to a sidebar, go to Appearance->Widgets and drag the Quote widget to the sidebar. Set the “Title” to the text you want to be displayed above the random quote in the sidebar.</p>
<p>The HTML displayed by the widget looks like this:</p>
<pre><code><div class="quote">
    “the_quote”
</div>
<div class="citation">
    &mdash;the_citation
</div>
<div class="all-quotes">
    [<a href="quote_archive_url">View All</a>]
</div>
</code></pre>


BHM Random Quote

Display a random quote from your collection in a sidebar using a widget

<p>Want a random quote plugin ? Want to change the old boring comment pages full of “Joe said” with something random like “Joe thought”, “Joe wrote” and “Joe replied” ?</p>
<p>Random Words is a WordPress Plugin allowing you to manage a number of lists with any items, and display random items from these lists. Everything is managed from within the Admin interface of your blog, in a very neat interface.</p>
<p>For documentation and tips, please refer to the official plugin page for <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/wordpress-plugin-random-words/" title="Random Words" rel="nofollow ugc">Random Words</a></p>


Ozh' Random Words

Create list of items and display random item. Random quotes, or replace "Joe said" with "Joe said/commented/wrote/thought"...

BHM Random Quote vs Ozh' Random Words