Pinkperry's favorite quotes

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

tags: books, soul

11,064 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor

9,293 people liked it

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, health, humor, misprints

2,359 people liked it

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
— Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, wisdom

1,346 people liked it

"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book."
— Jane Smiley (13 Ways of Looking at the Novel)

tags: books, reading

217 people liked it

"I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me."
— Charles Lamb

tags: books

4 people liked it

"when I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books, priorities

6 people liked it

"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading."
— B.F. Skinner

tags: books, love, reading, teach

5 people liked it

"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)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

6,607 people liked it

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

tags: humor, obvious

5,373 people liked it

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
— Oscar Levant

tags: genius, humor, insanity

1,661 people liked it

"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: animals, friends, humor, vegetarianism

515 people liked it

"You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway."
— Scott Adams

tags: food, humor, vegetarian, vegetarianism

125 people liked it

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. "
— Paul McCartney

tags: beatles, vegetarianism

116 people liked it

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. "
— Isaac Bashevis Singer

tags: chicken, vegetarianism

39 people liked it

"Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more."
— Franz Kafka

tags: vegetarianism

33 people liked it

"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: ethics, vegetarianism

16 people liked it

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: ethics, vegetarianism

10 people liked it