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"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion
1,309 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,904 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,629 people liked it

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
2,986 people liked it

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
3,483 people liked it

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
— Confucius

2,043 people liked it

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
— Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)

tags: books
836 people liked it

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

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
5,961 people liked it

"Always do what you are afraid to do."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational
1,056 people liked it

"For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken.It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack."
— D.H. Lawrence

tags: broken, d-h-, heart, lawrence, love, pomegranate
3 people liked it

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money
1,207 people liked it

"All art is quite useless. "
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: art
66 people liked it

"A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity."
— Germaine Greer

tags: innocence, libraries, reading, sexuality, virginity
63 people liked it

"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke

tags: books, good, impressions
111 people liked it

"I don't know about you, but I'm kind of fed up with realism. After all, there's enough reality already; why make more of it? Why not leave realism for the memoirs of drug addicts, the histories of salt, the biographies of porn stars? Why must we continue to read about the travails of divorced people or mildly depressed Canadians when we could be contemplating the shopping habits of zombies, or the difficulties that ensue when living and dead people marry each other? We should be demanding more stories about faery handbags and pyjamas inscribed with the diaries of strange women. We should not rest until someone writes about a television show that features the Free People's World-Tree Library, with its elaborate waterfalls and Forbidden Books and Pirate-Magicians. We should be pining for a house haunted by rabbits."
— Kelly Link

49 people liked it

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
— Margaret Fuller

tags: read, reader, reading
92 people liked it

"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow."
— Lawrence Clark Powell

tags: communication
26 people liked it

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. "
— W. Somerset Maugham

96 people liked it

"There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book."
— Betty MacDonald (Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic)

tags: books, candy, cozy, reading
19 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
7,377 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
4,905 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,314 people liked it

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: humor
191 people liked it

"Youth is wasted on the young."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: elderly, growing, potential, respect, waste, youth
129 people liked it

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

tags: fantasy
3,865 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,221 people liked it

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
1,652 people liked it

""Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited."
Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt."
— Albert Einstein

tags: fantasie, imagination
2 people liked it

"If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes."
— Mark Twain

7 people liked it

"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards."
— Mark Twain

57 people liked it

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
— Mark Twain

51 people liked it

"No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting."
— Mark Twain

3 people liked it

"Write without pay until somebody offers to pay."
— Mark Twain

tags: writing
25 people liked it

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: books, originality, unique
489 people liked it

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: attention, books, humor, mind, wit
171 people liked it

"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained"
— Walt Disney Company

70 people liked it

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
— Nelson Mandela

tags: change, education
339 people liked it

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
— Robert Frost

tags: education
359 people liked it

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, truth
403 people liked it

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
— Sinclair Lewis

tags: fascism, freedom, politics, religion
316 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
7,885 people liked it

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
— Anne Frank

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
1,384 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,014 people liked it

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya
4,842 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
1,504 people liked it

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
— Maya Angelou

tags: loneliness, music, refuge
455 people liked it

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
2,967 people liked it

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: failure, success
88 people liked it

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
— Theodore Roosevelt

74 people liked it

"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything."
— Theodore Roosevelt

80 people liked it

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