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

tags: books, soul
11,453 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,711 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,689 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,609 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,754 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
8,313 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,848 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship
7,715 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
6,814 people liked it

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

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,452 people liked it

"Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
4,869 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,495 people liked it

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

tags: books, house, windows
568 people liked it

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

tags: books, reading
418 people liked it

"There are books by which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."
— Charles Dickens

tags: books, writing
350 people liked it

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, fiction, literature
353 people liked it

"My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."
— Malcolm X

tags: books, reading
346 people liked it

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."
— Jessamyn West

tags: books, fiction, reality, truth
222 people liked it

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

tags: books, borrowing, lending
137 people liked it

"Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity"
— George Steiner

tags: books
44 people liked it

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

tags: books, health, humor, misprints
2,459 people liked it

"War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
217 people liked it

"If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?"
— Jerry Seinfeld

tags: books, funny
557 people liked it

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
— Golda Meir

tags: funny, golda, meir, true
193 people liked it

"I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers."
— Rodney Dangerfield

tags: funny, humour, neighborhoods
133 people liked it

"What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife."
— Rodney Dangerfield

tags: funny, humour, infidelity, parenthood, parenting, sexuality
160 people liked it

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
— Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom
993 people liked it

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

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

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational
3,843 people liked it

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."
— Lance Armstrong (Every Second Counts)

tags: cancer, failure, inspiration, inspirational, pain, quitting
229 people liked it

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: failure, harvard-commencement-speech
794 people liked it

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: failure, success
94 people liked it

"In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

tags: failure
52 people liked it

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
2,775 people liked it

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

tags: education
3,197 people liked it

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading
1,787 people liked it

"Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it."
— Mark Twain

tags: politics
986 people liked it

"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, inventing
595 people liked it

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

458 people liked it

"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."
— W.H. Auden

tags: books, forget, memory
38 people liked it

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