"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
— Bill Watterson (The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book)

"I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness."
— Bill Watterson

"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."
— Bill Watterson

"If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun."
— Katharine Hepburn

"What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate."
— Katharine Hepburn

"Most people our brought up to believe they are as good as the person next to them, I was told I was better."
— Katharine Hepburn

"The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated."
— Katharine Hepburn

"I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it."
— Katharine Hepburn

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

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

"Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided."
— Mae West

""When I am good...I am very, very good!
But when I am bad...honey, I am better!"
— Mae West (Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It)

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. 'Pooh?' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. 'I just wanted to be sure of you.'"
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"'We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
'Even longer,' Pooh answered."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. I'll always be with you."
— A.A. Milne

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries."
— A.A. Milne

"I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

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

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

"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)

"A house without books is like a room without windows."
— Horace Mann

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
— Walt Disney Company

"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
— Joseph Joubert

"I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room."
— Steven Wright

"He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot."
— Arabic proverb

"I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose."
— Sven Birkerts (The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age)

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

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

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

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
— Henry Ward Beecher

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"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

"The truth will make you odd."
— Judy Blume

"Beleive in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.
"
— Judy Blume

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

"When life gives you lemons, make grape juice, and watch the world wonder how you did it."
— Unknown

"A friend tries to bail you out of jail, while a best friend is in jail with you and says wow we messed up."
— Christihanna

"When life gives you lemons, chunk back and say"I dont want your freakin lemons!""
— ME Ariana Gonzalez

"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all the evidence that you even tried."
— Christian DeBoben

"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!'"
— Lewis Carroll

"When life hands you lemons, you stuff them in your bra!"
— Maxine

"I stuff another handful of Raisinets in my mouth. What gets me is the 'pretty face' bit. 'Cause I won't mind being reminded I'm fat as long as you water it down first. Why not say, Hey I'm going to insult you, but first I will congratulate your fortunate genetics and appropriate appliclation of Bobbi Brown cosmetics to prevent you from hitting me. Sh*t; I kind of prefer being called a 'fat bitch.' At least it doesn't pull any punches."
— Jen Lancaster (Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie is Not the Answer)

"Kiss the fattest part of my ass"
— Jen Lancaster (Bitter is the New Black : Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office)

"As I paddle along, I slowly become aware that it's been fear keeping me out of this pool for so many years. I never came here before because I was afraid I'd make a fool of myself by not having the endurance to complete a lap. The swimming wasn't what scared me; failure was. My fear locked me in a state of arrested development for so many years. Fear kept me from tackling my weight, which I understand has simply been symptomatic of my greater fear, growing up. I glide down the lane on my back and reflect on how good I feel right now. It's not because I've lost more than thirty pounds. I feel incredible because I've stopped being afraid."
— Jen Lancaster (Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie is Not the Answer)

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
— Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)