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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#2

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

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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#4

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

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#5

“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”
― James Thurber

tags: aphorism, inspirational

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#6

“Quick, name some towns in New Jersey”
― James Thurber

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#7

“Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

tags: grammar-humor

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#8

“It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.”
― James Thurber

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#9

“I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.”
― James Thurber

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“I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
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― James Thurber

tags: cats, humor, thurber

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#11

“If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. ”
― James Thurber

tags: dogs, humor, thurber

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#12

“The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.”
― James Thurber

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#13

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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#14

“I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.”
― Tom Waits

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#15

“Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On”
― Tom Waits

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#16

“There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.”
― Tom Waits

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#17

“The big print giveth and the small print taketh away. ”
― Tom Waits

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#18

“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.”
― Tom Waits

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#19

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits

tags: music, power-of-music

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#20

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans

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#21

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#22

“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

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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#23

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

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#24

“I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.”
― Norman Lewis

tags: travel

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#25

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
― Albert Schweitzer

tags: inspirational, life, spiritual, uplifting

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#26

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#27

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: meaning-of-life

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#28

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
― Bohumil Hrabal

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#29

“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
― Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

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#30

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

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