Helena's favorite quotes

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

tags: books, humor

9,157 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom

9,052 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

7,348 people liked it

"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

6,179 people liked it

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

tags: honesty, inspirational

5,283 people liked it

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

2,601 people liked it

"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, individuality, those-who-matter

17,734 people liked it

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

tags: humor, obvious

5,279 people liked it

"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
— Garrison Keillor

tags: humor, religion

3,835 people liked it

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. "
— Bill Gates

tags: humor, work

3,650 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

6,035 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

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

tags: truth

1,491 people liked it

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

tags: truth

1,797 people liked it

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

tags: education, fashion

1,301 people liked it

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

tags: age

910 people liked it

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth

466 people liked it

"Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if I had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice."
— Robert Frost (Robert Frost's Poems)

tags: poetry

328 people liked it

"They say that "guns don't kill people, people kill people." Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people."
— Eddie Izzard

tags: humor

134 people liked it

"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck."
— Joss Whedon

tags: individuality

545 people liked it

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

tags: inspirational

728 people liked it

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
— George Orwell

tags: truth

540 people liked it

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: inspirational

324 people liked it

"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

206 people liked it

"Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one."
— George Orwell (1984)

55 people liked it

""The very word 'war', therefore, has become
misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that
by becoming continuous, war has ceased to exist...
War is Peace."
— George Orwell

16 people liked it

"In the face of pain there are no heroes."
— George Orwell (1984)

9 people liked it

"For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?"
— George Orwell

tags: ethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, philosophy, psychology, science

4 people liked it

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