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#1

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

#2

“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.”
― Andrew Carnegie

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#3

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”
― Mae West

2811 likes

#4

“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: disapproval, humor, wordplay

1418 likes

#5

“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters

tags: bad-mood, disgruntlement, humor

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#6

“At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.”
― P.G. Wodehouse , Uneasy Money

tags: adeptness, dexterity, men, poise, superiority, women

567 likes

#7

“Employers are like horses — they require management.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Carry On, Jeeves

75 likes

#8

“It's and odd thing, but however much an oficionado one may be of mysteries in book form, when they pop up in real life they seldom fail to give one the pip.”
― P. G. Wodehouse

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#9

“To find a man's true character, play golf with him. ”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: golf

61 likes

#10

“I read part of it all the way through. ”
― Samuel Goldwyn

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#11

“There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”
― Bette Davis

tags: champagne, drinking

286 likes

#12

“My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.”
― Errol Flynn

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#13

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”
― John Barrymore

tags: old-age

48 likes

#14

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

tags: katharine-hepburn

4417 likes

#15

“In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed.”
― Martha Cooley, The Archivist

tags: books, library

57 likes

#16

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29744 likes

#17

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

25511 likes

#18

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
― Ernest Benn

tags: misattributed-groucho-marx, politics, problems

2005 likes

#19

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women

28779 likes

#20

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
― Will Rogers

tags: afterlife, death, dogs, heaven

1872 likes

#21

“The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.”
― Elizabeth Peters, The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog

tags: cats

387 likes

#22

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading, writing

7406 likes

#23

“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.”
― Ann Richards

tags: dance, dancing, politics, texas, women

2287 likes

#24

“Golf, like measles, should be caught young.”
― Wodehouse

tags: golf

21 likes

#25

“You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.”
― Monty Python

tags: libraries

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#26

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

20600 likes

#27

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: food, love

4375 likes

#28

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor

26791 likes

#29

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

101496 likes

#30

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

48287 likes

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