"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
— Albert Einstein

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
— Albert Einstein

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
— Albert Einstein

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
— Mark Twain (The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations)

"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
— Mark Twain

"I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."
— Mark Twain

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."
— Karl Marx

"Religion is the Opiate of the Masses."
— Karl Marx (Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right)

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."
— Mae West

"There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out."
— Mae West

"When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. "
— Mae West

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
— Groucho Marx

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it."
— Groucho Marx

"I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER"."
— Groucho Marx (Groucho and Me)

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
— Groucho Marx

"Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it."
— Groucho Marx

"Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped."
— Groucho Marx

"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted."
— Groucho Marx

"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."
— Groucho Marx

"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."
— Groucho Marx

"My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one."
— Groucho Marx

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

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

"Writers block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol."
— Steve Martin

"I gave my cat a bath the other day...they love it. He sat there, he enjoyed it, if was fun for me. The fur would stick to my tongue, but other than that..."
— Steve Martin

"First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me."
— Steve Martin

"Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up."
— Steve Martin (The Pleasure of My Company: A Novel)

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

"The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
— Robert Frost

"These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
— Robert Frost

"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)

"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
— Robert Frost

"Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father’s right," she said. "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. ~Atticus Finch"
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"Scout, you never really understand a man unless you step inside his shoes and walk around in them."
— Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)