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"Protect the workers, encourage the rich."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

tags: ideology, political
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"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
— Anaïs Nin

84 people liked it

"Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse. "
— Groucho Marx

21 people liked it

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

tags: honesty, inspirational
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"The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families."
— Jay McInerney (The Last of the Savages)

tags: family, friendship, humor
307 people liked it

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
— Albert Einstein

tags: funny
587 people liked it

"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it."
— Jack Handey

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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,663 people liked it

"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left."
— Oscar Levant

11 people liked it

"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot."
— Groucho Marx

76 people liked it

"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."
— Groucho Marx

tags: humor, marriage
57 people liked it

"time wounds all heels"
— Groucho Marx

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"Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
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— Oscar Levant

9 people liked it

"Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything."
— Steve Martin

tags: french, humor
104 people liked it

"If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you."
— Steve Martin

40 people liked it

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

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"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor
13 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
6,009 people liked it

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

tags: books, health, humor, misprints
2,316 people liked it

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said 'I don't know'."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge
1,435 people liked it

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
— Mark Twain

tags: living, world
1,038 people liked it

"The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for."
— Mark Twain

409 people liked it

"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it."
— Alfred Hitchcock

27 people liked it

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them."
— Phyllis Diller

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"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
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— Phyllis Diller

5 people liked it

"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: religion
153 people liked it

"Well done is better than well said."
— Benjamin Franklin

95 people liked it

""If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?" "
— Pink Floyd

tags: humor
4 people liked it

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
— Albert Einstein

tags: religion, science
1,547 people liked it

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
3,445 people liked it

"Work is always an antidote to depression."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

43 people liked it

"Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings."
— Cheris Kramarae

tags: feminism, women
228 people liked it

"...heavily tattooed women can be said to control & subvert the ever-present 'male gaze' by forcing men (and women) to look at their bodies in a manner that exerts control."
— Margo Demello

tags: tattoo, women
12 people liked it

"Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest."
— Alexandre Dumas

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"As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it."
— Alexandre Dumas

30 people liked it

"One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never."
— Alexandre Dumas

21 people liked it

"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one."
— Alexandre Dumas

15 people liked it

"My arms are too short to box with God."
— Johnny Cash

tags: arms, boxing, god
39 people liked it

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: insanity, sanity
783 people liked it

"I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony
342 people liked it

"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."
— Edgar Allan Poe

21 people liked it

"Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death."
— William S. Burroughs

tags: death, murder
120 people liked it

"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on."
— William S. Burroughs

60 people liked it

"Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing."
— William S. Burroughs

32 people liked it

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."
— William S. Burroughs

14 people liked it

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: life, philosophy
3,516 people liked it

"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: life
197 people liked it

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: independence, women
206 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,242 people liked it

"May you live every day of your life."
— Jonathan Swift

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
473 people liked it

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