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

tags: books, humor
9,155 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,077 people liked it

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
1,489 people liked it

"I am not young enough to know everything."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: age
909 people liked it

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, morality, reading
935 people liked it

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
741 people liked it

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: heaven, humor
853 people liked it

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: betrayal, friends
647 people liked it

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: dreaming, dreams, imagination
537 people liked it

"I can resist anything, except temptation."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: temptation
342 people liked it

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: saint, sinner
359 people liked it

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: laughter, truth
264 people liked it

"The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor, suspense
209 people liked it

"Don't Panic"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: gets, me, some, things, through, weird
487 people liked it

"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: british, commentary, fiction, humor, science, social, thumb, towel
408 people liked it

"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."
— Oscar Wilde

107 people liked it

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."
— Oscar Wilde

90 people liked it

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library
3,086 people liked it

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
— Terry Pratchett (Jingo)

tags: humor, proverb
1,984 people liked it

"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

tags: cats, humor, life
738 people liked it

"It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it."
— Terry Pratchett

531 people liked it

"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."
— Terry Pratchett (Reaper Man)

tags: books, humor
206 people liked it

"His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.'"
— Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

134 people liked it

"She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you."
— Terry Pratchett (Equal Rites)

106 people liked it

"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it."
— Terry Pratchett (Monstrous Regiment)

tags: humor
75 people liked it

"Being crazy isn't enough."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: crazy
482 people liked it

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, inspirational
482 people liked it

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone"
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
141 people liked it

"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."
— Arthur C. Clarke

21 people liked it

"I don't do drugs. I am drugs."
— Salvador Dali

tags: drugs
58 people liked it

"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."
— Salvador Dali

tags: age, ambition, dreaming, dreams, youth
36 people liked it

"An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms."
— Salvador Dali (The Secret Life Of Salvador Dali)

tags: elegance, women
22 people liked it

"What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it."
— Salvador Dali

tags: confusion
22 people liked it

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. "
— William S. Burroughs

tags: drugs, philosophy, politics
211 people liked it

"They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well — you just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference."
— Bill Hicks

tags: drugs, humor
24 people liked it

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: day, dreaming, dreams, night
575 people liked it

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven: With, the Philosophy of Composition)

119 people liked it

"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."
— Edgar Allan Poe

50 people liked it

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be."
— Edgar Allan Poe

32 people liked it

"Sleep, those tiny slices of death—how I loathe them."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: death, sleep
27 people liked it

"Here is my final point...About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography...What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, or take into my body as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? And for those who are having a little moral dilemma in your head about how to answer that question, I'll answer it for you. NONE of your fucking business. Take that to the bank, cash it, and go fucking on a vacation out of my life."
— Bill Hicks

10 people liked it

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
— Hunter S. Thompson

408 people liked it

"Some may never live, but the crazy never die."
— Hunter S. Thompson

126 people liked it

"We can't stop here, this is bat country!"
— Hunter S. Thompson

89 people liked it

"Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
— Hunter S. Thompson

102 people liked it

"There he goes. One of God s own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die."
— Hunter S. Thompson

85 people liked it

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
— Hunter S. Thompson

81 people liked it

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!'"
— Hunter S. Thompson

78 people liked it

"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
— Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky)

183 people liked it

"I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing."
— Hunter S. Thompson (The Rum Diary: A Novel)

41 people liked it

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