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"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
6,546 people liked it

"Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much."
— Clint Eastwood

5 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
15,737 people liked it

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,233 people liked it

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

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,334 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
9,088 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
7,390 people liked it

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

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
5,812 people liked it

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, misfits, nonconformity, quo, rebels, status, think
6,818 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,587 people liked it

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
2,633 people liked it

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
861 people liked it

"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books
1,329 people liked it

"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!"
— John Waters

tags: books, fuck, profanity, reading
338 people liked it

"Books may well be the only true magic."
— Alice Hoffman

tags: books
346 people liked it

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. "
— Charles Bukowski

454 people liked it

"Do you hate people?

I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around."
— Charles Bukowski (The Movie: Barfly)

338 people liked it

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

tags: humor, procrastination
5,540 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,851 people liked it

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
2,177 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
1,994 people liked it

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
— Mark Twain

tags: greatness
1,936 people liked it

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

tags: christian, humor, philosophy, theology
1,917 people liked it

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
1,809 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
1,525 people liked it

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics
1,505 people liked it

"I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass. "
— David Lee Roth

3 people liked it

"If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you"
— Henry Rollins

24 people liked it

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

tags: humor, movies
2,204 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
1,692 people liked it

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

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

"In Hollywood, no one knows anything."
— William Goldman

tags: hollywood, how, screenplays, to, writing
3 people liked it

"When the going gets weird the weird turn pro."
— Hunter S. Thompson

tags: life
175 people liked it

"Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered."
— Daniel Woodrell (Winter's Bone)

tags: hillbilly
2 people liked it

"You can observe a lot just by watching."
— Yogi Berra

tags: managment, science
56 people liked it

"When you come to a fork in the road take it"
— Yogi Berra

tags: misquotes, slight
51 people liked it

"90% of the game is half mental."
— Yogi Berra

tags: inspirational
42 people liked it

"If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. "
— Yogi Berra

tags: humor, philosophical
37 people liked it

"Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight."
— Yogi Berra

tags: humor, pie
41 people liked it

"I never said most of the things I said."
— Yogi Berra

35 people liked it

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."
— Yogi Berra

31 people liked it

"Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded"
— Yogi Berra

tags: humor
29 people liked it

"Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."
— Yogi Berra

22 people liked it

"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question."
— Yogi Berra

tags: answer, berra, question, yogi
20 people liked it

"You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you."
— Yogi Berra

19 people liked it

"If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer."
— Yogi Berra

12 people liked it

"It ain't the heat, it's the humility."
— Yogi Berra

9 people liked it

"I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous."
— Yogi Berra

tags: humor
15 people liked it

""He must have made that before he died." "
— Yogi Berra

9 people liked it

"When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless. "
— Larry David (Inside Arc View GIS, 3E)

2 people liked it

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