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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #3
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #4
    Lemony Snicket
    “Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #5
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #6
    Lemony Snicket
    “If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

  • #7
    Lemony Snicket
    “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #8
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

  • #9
    Lemony Snicket
    “Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #10
    Lemony Snicket
    “If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #11
    Lemony Snicket
    “No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #12
    Lemony Snicket
    “Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival

  • #13
    Lemony Snicket
    “If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #14
    Lemony Snicket
    “Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #15
    Lemony Snicket
    “A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #16
    Lemony Snicket
    “A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #17
    Lemony Snicket
    “At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #18
    Lemony Snicket
    “For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

  • #19
    Lemony Snicket
    “They're book addicts.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill

  • #20
    Lemony Snicket
    “People don't always get what they deserve in this world.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

  • #21
    Lemony Snicket
    “Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #22
    Lemony Snicket
    “The end of THE END is the best place to begin THE END, because if you read THE END from the beginning of the beginning of THE END to the end of the end of THE END, you will arrive at the end.”
    Lemony Snicket, The End

  • #23
    Lemony Snicket
    “One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #24
    Lemony Snicket
    “Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #25
    Lemony Snicket
    “Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

  • #26
    Lemony Snicket
    “Beef. Yes. Roast beef. It's the Swedish term for beef that is roasted.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #27
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #28
    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

  • #29
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

  • #30
    Dr. Seuss
    “Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”
    Dr. Seuss



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