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"I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there might be a wife someplace else. "
— Bella Abzug

1 person liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
17,702 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,307 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,192 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,276 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
9,039 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,430 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,169 people liked it

"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."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,567 people liked it

"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
2,795 people liked it

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
2,244 people liked it

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
1,591 people liked it

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading
735 people liked it

"Inigo: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.

Westley: You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die. "
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movie
622 people liked it

"Inigo Montoya: That Vizzini, he can *fuss*.
Fezzik: Fuss, fuss... I think he like to scream at *us*.
Inigo Montoya: Probably he means no *harm*.
Fezzik: He's really very short on *charm*.
Inigo Montoya: You have a great gift for rhyme.
Fezzik: Yes, yes, some of the time.
Vizzini: Enough of that.
Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?
Fezzik: If there are, we all be dead.
Vizzini: No more rhyming now, I mean it.
Fezzik: Anybody want a peanut?
Vizzini: DYEEAAHHHHHH."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movie, rhyming
386 people liked it

"(Buttercup kisses the senile King)
The King: What was that for?

Buttercup: Because you have always been so kind to me, and I won't be seeing you again since I'm killing myself once we reach the honeymoon suite.

The King: Won't that be nice. She kissed me!"
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movie
199 people liked it

"Westley (as he is unsuccessfully fighting Fezzik): Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what?

Fezzik: I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people to die embarrassed."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movie
137 people liked it

"do you really think he likes me lizzi?"
"jane, he danced with you most of the night and stared at you the rest of it."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

tags: attraction, guys, humor, love, men, movie
240 people liked it

"Have fun storming the castle!"
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: books, castles, humor, movie
266 people liked it

"Fezzik: Inigo?

Inigo: What?

Fezzik: I hope we win."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movie
92 people liked it

"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
— Wesley

tags: movie, quote
92 people liked it

"You have a dizzying intellect."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movie, wisdom
53 people liked it

"When I was your age, television was called books."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: book, fantasy, humour
105 people liked it

"Jumpin' Harptoads!!!"
— *the sword in the stone

tags: humor, movie
20 people liked it

"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: death, love, movies
1,151 people liked it

"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: death, life
48 people liked it

"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
— Walt Disney Company

tags: inspirational
143 people liked it

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

tags: humor, procrastination
5,518 people liked it

"There are books by which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."
— Charles Dickens

tags: books, writing
330 people liked it

"Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens."
— Maria von Trapp

tags: music
61 people liked it

"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
— Ludwig van Beethoven

tags: beethoven, music
41 people liked it

"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
— Edith Sitwell

tags: hobbies, music, reading, silence
63 people liked it

"...and talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only happiness worth a wish."
— Jane Austen

tags: family
2 people liked it

"It's not so much what happens to us but how we deal with what happens to us."
— James E. Faust

7 people liked it

"Faith is not so much something we believe;faith is something we live."
— Joseph B. Wirthlin

7 people liked it

"May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life."
— Heber J. Grant

tags: blessings
8 people liked it

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movies
2,194 people liked it

"Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: funny, humor, inconceivable, movies
1,685 people liked it

"You are very squishy. So I shall name you squishy. And you shall be my little squishy."
— Dory from Finding Nemo

tags: movies
67 people liked it

"Yep. Daylight savings time. My idea."
— Riley, National Treasure

tags: humor, movies
21 people liked it

"Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I"
— Dorothy Gale, Wizard of Oz

tags: movies
12 people liked it

"Follow the yellow brick road"
— Judy Garland

tags: adventure, journey, roads, travel
9 people liked it

"Somewhere over the Rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true"
— Judy Garland

tags: lyrics, movies
16 people liked it

"Just follow your heart, That's what I do"
— Napolean Dynamite

tags: dynamite, movies, napolean
7 people liked it

"Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: lds, religious
209 people liked it

"Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he will love you, that he will respect you, that he will honor you, that he will be absolutely true to you, that he will give you the freedom of expression and let you fly in the development of your own talents. He is not going to be perfect, but if he is kind and thoughtful, if he knows how to work and earn a living, if he is honest and full of faith, the chances are you will not go wrong, that you will be immensely happy."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: lds, religious
136 people liked it

"I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: lds, prohpets
77 people liked it

"How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue, notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time. Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: inspirational, lds, religious, uplifting
56 people liked it