Joy's favorite quotes

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life

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

tags: books, soul

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy

"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

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity

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

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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

tags: literacy

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life

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

tags: books, library

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

Joy's quotes