Shawnasea's quotes

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#1

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
8,076 people liked it

#2

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

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
4,984 people liked it

#3

"I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over."
— Henrik Johan Ibsen

tags: majority, society
18 people liked it

#4

"Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: life
264 people liked it

#5

"True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. "
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: cough, drops, love
143 people liked it

#6

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: breath, existence
276 people liked it

#7

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: death, peace
518 people liked it

#8

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, those-who-matter
23,315 people liked it

#9

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
6,797 people liked it

#10

"Hell is other people."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (No Exit: A Play in One Act)

tags: hell, people
150 people liked it

#11

"Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: freedom
89 people liked it

#12

"We are our choices."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: choices
54 people liked it

#13

"All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: books, knowledge
25 people liked it

#14

"l'enfer, c'est les autres"
— Jean-Paul Sartre

23 people liked it

#15

"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"
— George Carlin

tags: humor
506 people liked it

#16

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
— George Carlin

tags: stupid
210 people liked it

#17

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music."
— George Carlin

tags: dance, dancing, music
1,475 people liked it

#18

"Some people have a way with words....some people....not have way."
— Steve Martin (Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life)

tags: humor
196 people liked it

#19

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, men, women
782 people liked it

#20

"We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck."
— M.T. Anderson (Feed)

tags: first-sentence
50 people liked it