Quotes - Leilani (leilania) (Timor-leste) Showing 1-30 of 305

#1

“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: gibe, insult

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#2

“Teeth are always in style.”
― Dr. Seuss

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#3

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: dangerous, evil, people, world

3495 likes

#4

“And he despised pedants. A junior civil servant had tortuously re-worded a sentence to avoid ending with a preposition. The Prime Minister scrawled across the page, "This is nonsense up with which I will not put.”
― William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill [#1]: Visions of Glory, 1874 - 1932

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#5

“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

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71605 likes

#6

“Never, never, never give up.”
― Winston Churchill

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#7

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”
― Voltaire

tags: gospel-truth

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#8

“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

148080 likes

#9

“Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)”
― Groucho Marx, Memoirs of a Mangy Lover

tags: luck, women

66 likes

#10

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
― Evelyn Beatrice Hall

55 likes

#11

“A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: funny, simplicity

678 likes

#12

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

2948 likes

#13

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

5440 likes

#14

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.

tags: hope, inspirational

5692 likes

#15

“You'll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: books, tea

30 likes

#16

“Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe”
― Galileo Galilei

101 likes

#17

“Before I speak, I have something important to say.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: absurdist, humor

244 likes

#18

“Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.”
― Albert Einstein

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#19

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

8865 likes

#20

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23105 likes

#22

“The greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens.”
― Galileo Galilei

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#22

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88038 likes

#23

“I intend to live forever, or die trying.”
― Groucho Marx

681 likes

#24

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Laurence J. Peter

tags: misattributed-einstein

8440 likes

#25

“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
― Voltaire

tags: inspirational, misattributed-to-jim-collins, work-ethic

380 likes

#26

“Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?”
― Galileo Galilei, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo

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#27

“I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.”
― Groucho Marx, The Groucho Letters

158 likes

#29

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)

tags: classic-insult

5141 likes

#30

“Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.”
― Albert Einstein

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#30

“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.”
― Groucho Marx

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