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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,953 people liked it

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: laughter, truth
289 people liked it

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion
1,386 people liked it

"Be great in act, as you have been in thought. "
— William Shakespeare

36 people liked it

"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
218 people liked it

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: future
107 people liked it

"Big Brother is Watching You."
— George Orwell (1984)

60 people liked it

"I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties."
— Ron Paul

31 people liked it

"One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government."
— Ron Paul

tags: politics
53 people liked it

"Truth is treason in the empire of lies."
— Ron Paul (The Revolution: A Manifesto)

18 people liked it

"This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: wallpaper
92 people liked it

"One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: humans, humor, interesting
99 people liked it

"There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers."
— Chelsea Handler (My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands)

tags: alcohol, drinking, drinks, humor
115 people liked it

"If I ever meet myself, I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor, zaphod
159 people liked it

"Maybe this world is another planet’s hell."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: hell, life
205 people liked it

"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: man, read
56 people liked it

"I like being myself. Myself and nasty."
— Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

46 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,901 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,514 people liked it

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: books, morality, reading, writing
768 people liked it

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories)

tags: sin
734 people liked it

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, quotation, wit
611 people liked it

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
793 people liked it

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
497 people liked it

"People, generally, suck."
— Christopher Moore

tags: humor
663 people liked it

"You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't."
— Christopher Moore (Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal)

tags: first-sentence
61 people liked it

"If we couldnt laugh we would all go insane"
— Robert Frost

tags: laughter
487 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
7,440 people liked it

"Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if I had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice."
— Robert Frost (Robert Frost's Poems)

tags: poetry
364 people liked it

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
1,014 people liked it

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

369 people liked it

"And so it goes..."
— Kurt Vonnegut

392 people liked it

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
— Kurt Vonnegut

407 people liked it

"All this happened, more or less."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five)

tags: first-sentence
90 people liked it

"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humor
192 people liked it

"Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead."
— Kurt Vonnegut

114 people liked it

"We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: pessimistic
65 people liked it

"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five)

93 people liked it

"I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all."
— Kurt Vonnegut (The Sirens of Titan)

tags: insightful
70 people liked it

"And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five)

tags: humanity
95 people liked it

"the future is no place to place your better days"
— Dave Matthews

9 people liked it

"Celebrate we will
Because life is short but sweet for certain"
— Dave Matthews Band, Two Step

23 people liked it

"if you give, you begin to live."
— Dave Matthews

9 people liked it

"Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we'll die"
— Dave Matthews

9 people liked it

"Always walk where you like your steps.
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— Dave Matthews

5 people liked it

"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept."
— George Carlin

tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
1,437 people liked it

"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."
— George Orwell (In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950)

tags: humananity, truth, wisdom
111 people liked it

"To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle."
— George Orwell

tags: courage, truth
30 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,660 people liked it

"If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it."
— Stephen Colbert

tags: humor, politics
135 people liked it

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