vorbore's favorite quotes

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

tags: books, humor

"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (A Civil Campaign)

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

79 people liked it

"I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Shards of Honour)

27 people liked it

"But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?"
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Barrayar)

10 people liked it

"If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back."
— Lois McMaster Bujold

4 people liked it

"The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business."
— Lois McMaster Bujold

4 people liked it

"When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. "
— Lois McMaster Bujold

tags: consequences

11 people liked it

"My home is not a place, it is people."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Barrayar)

6 people liked it

"If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Labyrinth)

8 people liked it

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: inspirational

225 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

12,592 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life

9,999 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

7,969 people liked it

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

tags: exercise, humor, laziness

6,077 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work

5,526 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."
— Jim Henson

tags: humor

5,941 people liked it

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

tags: life

7,513 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

5,217 people liked it

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

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy

6,597 people liked it

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

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong

3,982 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

3,984 people liked it

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: life

3,942 people liked it

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

3,093 people liked it

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: life, philosophy

3,858 people liked it

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

tags: humor, procrastination

5,817 people liked it

"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
— Woody Allen

tags: death, fear, humor, life

2,870 people liked it

"Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Komarr)

2 people liked it

"A book is like a mirror. If an ass looks into it, you cannot expect an angel to look out"
— Schopenhauer

1 person liked it

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