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"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: greatness
2,802 people liked it

"I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony
363 people liked it

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: dreaming, dreams, perception
368 people liked it

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: insanity, sanity
853 people liked it

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore'."
— Edgar Allan Poe

66 people liked it

"I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results."
— Edgar Allan Poe

37 people liked it

"Babe!"
— Janet Evanovich

tags: humor, ranger
51 people liked it

"Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth."
— Janet Evanovich

tags: birthday, cake, life, novels, romance
150 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,569 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,296 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,780 people liked it

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
6,039 people liked it

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
2,081 people liked it

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading
1,798 people liked it

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing
1,590 people liked it

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
— Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, wisdom
1,407 people liked it

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

tags: christian, humor, philosophy, theology
2,033 people liked it

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."
— Mark Twain

tags: censorship, food
1,058 people liked it

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
— Mark Twain (The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations)

tags: writing
961 people liked it

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, satan
1,218 people liked it

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
— Mark Twain

tags: illusions, life
626 people liked it

"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
— Mark Twain

tags: politics
992 people liked it

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
— Mark Twain

tags: animals, dogs
499 people liked it

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed."
— Mark Twain

tags: newspapers
532 people liked it

"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"
— Mark Twain

tags: bible, books
505 people liked it

"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, inventing
597 people liked it

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
— Mark Twain

tags: facts, humor
353 people liked it

"While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats."
— Mark Twain

tags: cats, redheads
120 people liked it

"An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before."
— Mark Twain

tags: american
80 people liked it

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
— Mark Twain

tags: clothing
350 people liked it

"Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog."
— Mark Twain

tags: dog, famous, inspirational
259 people liked it

"There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy."
— Mark Twain

118 people liked it

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
— Mark Twain

202 people liked it

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. "
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, success
134 people liked it

"My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine.(Fortunately) Everybody drinks water."
— Mark Twain

tags: books
79 people liked it

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
— Mark Twain

tags: honors
94 people liked it

"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."
— Mark Twain

43 people liked it

"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
— Mark Twain

tags: education
212 people liked it

"The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter."
— Mark Twain

tags: laughter
118 people liked it

"To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French."
— Mark Twain

15 people liked it

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
— Mark Twain

tags: bank, bankers, humor
258 people liked it

"My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid."
— Joan Bauer

tags: books, library
152 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,588 people liked it

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
— Voltaire

261 people liked it

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
2,136 people liked it

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."
— Bernice Johnson Reagon

4 people liked it

"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not."
— James Gordon

tags: change, inspirational, motivation
19 people liked it

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over; it became a butterfly."
— Anonm

7 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,845 people liked it

""One Hundred Years from now
It will not matter
what kind of car I drove,
What kind of house I lived in,
how much money was in my bank account
nor what my clothes looked like.
But the world may be a better place because
I was important in the life of a child.""
— "Within My Power" by Forest Witcraft

11 people liked it

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