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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,468 people liked it

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

tags: humor, obvious
5,326 people liked it

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

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,859 people liked it

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
4,975 people liked it

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
3,894 people liked it

"They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast! "
— Dr. Seuss

52 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,223 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
8,692 people liked it

"Humor is reason gone mad."
— Groucho Marx

tags: humor, reason
656 people liked it

"I don't have pet peeves - I have major psychotic fucking hatreds."
— George Carlin

98 people liked it

"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."
— Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

tags: humor, science
422 people liked it

"I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed."
— George Carlin

33 people liked it

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

tags: exercise, humor, laziness
5,835 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
1,351 people liked it

"If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong."
— Groucho Marx

81 people liked it

"If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again"
— Groucho Marx

32 people liked it

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: insanity
131 people liked it

"I've got nothing to do today but smile."
— Simon and Garfunkel

tags: happiness, life
212 people liked it

"The truth shall set you free. But first, it shall piss you off."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: feminism, humour, truth
47 people liked it

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."
— Frank Zappa

tags: open-mind
102 people liked it

"I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”"
— Jim Morrison (Eyes: Poetry of Jim Morrison 1967 1971)

23 people liked it

"He had a dashing smile. It nearly dashed right off his face."
— Shannon Hale (Austenland)

tags: humorous
57 people liked it

"Where's your will to be weird? "
— Jim Morrison

tags: individuality, weirdness, wierd, will
70 people liked it

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin

tags: philosophy
2,287 people liked it

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

tags: morality, philosophy
183 people liked it

"A cult is a religion with no political power."
— Tom Wolfe

tags: atheism, philosophy
60 people liked it

"Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy "
— Ludwig van Beethoven

tags: music, philosophy, revelation, wisdom
81 people liked it

"Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure"
— Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: happiness, philosophy
50 people liked it

"Compassion is the basis of morality."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: compassion, morality, morals
18 people liked it

"Life without pain has no meaning."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

12 people liked it

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