Diana's favorite quotes

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading

2,963 people liked it

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
— Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)

tags: books

836 people liked it

"If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten."
— Temple Grandin

tags: animals, language

4 people liked it

"Is there no way out of the mind?"
— Sylvia Plath

114 people liked it

"Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are."
— Lloyd Alexander (The Castle of Llyr)

33 people liked it

"No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. "
— Betty Friedan

tags: feminism, housekeeping, orgasm, sex, sexuality, women

150 people liked it

"It's not the length of the word; it's how well you use it!"
— Rachel Vincent

15 people liked it

"A library is infinity under a roof."
— Gail Carson Levine

149 people liked it

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition"
— Timothy Leary

tags: feminism, women

150 people liked it

"The truth shall set you free. But first, it shall piss you off."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: feminism, humour, truth

47 people liked it

"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)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

6,530 people liked it

"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
— Mark Twain

tags: animals, dogs, heaven

163 people liked it

"Happiness is a warm puppy."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies

1,093 people liked it

"You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: animals, dogs

80 people liked it

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women

3,723 people liked it

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."
— Josh Billings

tags: animals, dogs

88 people liked it

"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: dogs, poetry

91 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

240 people liked it

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
— Will Rogers

tags: afterlife, death, dogs, heaven

88 people liked it

"All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.
(Snoopy, at his typewriter)"
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: animals, dogs, humans

75 people liked it

"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: language

57 people liked it

"The limits of my language means the limits of my world."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: language, perception

35 people liked it

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