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#1

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: friendship, literature

#2

“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally

tags: brains, marriage

2124 likes

#3

“Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!

tags: hair, humor, redheads

617 likes

#4

“Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

484 likes

#5

“I always advise people never to give advice.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: advice

430 likes

#6

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

tags: humor, work

8145 likes

#7

“Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

tags: kisses-idleness

885 likes

#8

“I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

337 likes

#9

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47070 likes

#10

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92173 likes

#11

“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
― P. J. O'Rourke

tags: books, good-impressions

435 likes

#12

“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.”
― P. J. O'Rourke

146 likes

#13

“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”
― P.J. O'Rourke

tags: society-s-increasing-stupidity, willful-ignorance

212 likes

#14

“He constructed a shell to hide his aloneness, and it hardened on his back. I know of no sadder story.”
― Peter Guralnick

6 likes

#15

“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”
― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

tags: adventure, africa, life

267 likes

#16

“Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.”
― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

tags: clever, foresight

217 likes

#17

“God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.”
― Isak Dinesen

tags: inspirational

108 likes

#18

“Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.”
― Isak Dinesen

115 likes

#19

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

tags: education, educational, inspirational, inspiring, learning, mentoring

1845 likes

#20

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― E.M. Forster

tags: living

445 likes

#21

“Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.”
― Isak Dinesen

tags: humor, inspirational

83 likes

#22

“Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best. ”
― Isak Dinesen, Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny

86 likes

#23

“We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.”
― Isak Dinesen

49 likes

#24

“A great artist is never poor.”
― Isak Dinesen

tags: inspirational

29 likes

#25

“When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.”
― Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

37 likes

#26

“One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.”
― Isak Dinesen

22 likes

#27

“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room With A View

419 likes

#28

“Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

tags: adventure

253 likes

#29

“Only connect!”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

148 likes

#30

“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

tags: 1908, life, metaphor, violin

239 likes

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