"Resist much. Obey little."
— Walt Whitman

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
— G.K. Chesterton (Alarms and Discursions)

"If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!"
— Shel Silverstein

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
— Robert Frost

"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."
— T.S. Eliot

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
— T.S. Eliot

"...life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis"
— e.e. cummings

"A Book

THERE is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!"
— Emily Dickinson

"Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain."
— William Faulkner

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

"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer"
— Douglas Adams

"Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

1. We are here to help you.
2. You will have time to get to your class before the bell rings.
3. The dress code will be enforced.
4. No smoking is allowed on school grounds.
5. Our football team will win the championship this year.
6. We expect more of you here.
7. Guidance counselors are always available to listen.
8. Your schedule was created with you in mind.
9. Your locker combination is private.
10. These will be the years you look back on fondly.

TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL

1. You will use algebra in your adult lives.
2. Driving to school is a privilege that can be taken away.
3. Students must stay on campus during lunch.
4. The new text books will arrive any day now.
5. Colleges care more about you than your SAT scores.
6. We are enforcing the dress code.
7. We will figure out how to turn off the heat soon.
8. Our bus drivers are highly trained professionals.
9. There is nothing wrong with summer school.
10. We want to hear what you have to say."
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

"Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.

Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.

Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.

Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
— Mark Twain

"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!'"
— Lewis Carroll

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

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

"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."
— Benjamin Disraeli

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
— John Lennon

"Nothing is real."
— John Lennon (Beatles Lyrics)

"I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting."
— J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey)

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
— Tom Robbins

"We loved with a love that was more than love."
— Edgar Allan Poe

"No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it."
— Elizabeth Peters

"If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips."
— Robert Jordan

"Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget."
— Robert Jordan

"Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather."
— Robert Jordan

"What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths."
— Joe Meno (The Boy Detective Fails)

"The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict."
— Joe Meno (The Boy Detective Fails)

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. "
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"The things you own end up owning you."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"I don't want to die without any scars."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"This is your life and its ending one moment at a time."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"advertising has us chasing cars and clothes. working jobs we hate, so we can buy shit we dont need."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"Make me into anything, but just love me."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

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

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson