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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Steve  Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    Steve Martin

  • #9
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #10
    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    Jim Henson

  • #11
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    Mark Twain

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #15
    Lemony Snicket
    “Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #16
    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    Oscar Wilde
    tags: age

  • #18
    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #19
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #20
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #21
    William Shakespeare
    “This above all: to thine own self be true,
    And it must follow, as the night the day,
    Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #22
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #23
    Virginia Woolf
    “Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #24
    Charles Baudelaire
    “Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,
    When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,
    And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,
    Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom”
    Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

  • #25
    “Just when you think life is a bitch, it has puppies.”
    Lois Battle, The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary & Sewing Circle

  • #26
    Alfred Tennyson
    “The mirror crack'd from side to side
    "The curse has come upon me," cried
    The Lady of Shalott”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott

  • #27
    Guy de Maupassant
    “Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.”
    Guy de Maupassant

  • #28
    John Milton
    “And that must end us, that must be our cure:
    To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose,
    Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
    Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
    To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost
    In the wide womb of uncreated night
    Devoid of sense and motion?”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #29
    “We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not to begin a sentence with And. I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And, but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James. In that case, I argued, why make us read the Bible? But it was in vain. Robert Graves was very keen on the symbolism and mysticism in the Bible at that time.”
    Stephen W. Hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

  • #30
    “... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.”
    Bill Bryson, I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away



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