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#1

“Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

#2

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

tags: books, humor, television

6848 likes

#3

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

8631 likes

#4

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

tags: gates-of-hell, hell, latin, motto

901 likes

#5

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: loss

9424 likes

#6

“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: life

4408 likes

#7

“The things you used to own, now they own you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: own, things

2721 likes

#8

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: life

1929 likes

#9

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

tags: books, humor, reading

4410 likes

#10

“I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote de La Mancha, Vol. 1

264 likes

#11

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

27257 likes

#12

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life

8212 likes

#13

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: bernard-shaw, irish, pigs, pointlessness

1155 likes

#14

“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
― George Bernard Shaw, John Bull's Other Island

tags: humor

678 likes

#15

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
― Puck Magazine

tags: misattributed-confucius, misattributed-g-b-shaw

823 likes

#16

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: anti-patriotism, identity, nation, nationalism, politics

785 likes

#17

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”
― George Bernard Shaw

309 likes

#18

“War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
― Anonymous

tags: misattributed-bernard-shaw, misattributed-bertrand-russell, war

1546 likes

#19

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: dread, liberty, responsibility

408 likes

#20

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life

193 likes

#21

“That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals
their affection from her.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: women

73 likes

#22

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

253 likes

#23

“There is always danger for those who are afraid.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: danger, fear

87 likes

#24

“Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”
― George Bernard Shaw

67 likes

#25

“Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.”
― George Bernard Shaw

34 likes

#26

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: humor

32 likes

#27

“The best way to get your point across is to entertain.”
― George Bernard Shaw

46 likes

#28

“The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: ideas, plays

24 likes

#29

“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”
― George Bernard Shaw

37 likes

#30

“Такава една чудна и толкова хубава бъркотия е животът!”
― Димитър Талев, Железният светилник

109 likes

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