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"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"
— Albert Einstein

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

tags: books, soul
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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,606 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,722 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,508 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
8,198 people liked it

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

tags: women
7,127 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
7,074 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
6,737 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,315 people liked it

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

tags: literacy
6,191 people liked it

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya
5,125 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,759 people liked it

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
3,904 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,854 people liked it

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: greatness
2,745 people liked it

"Never memorize something that you can look up."
— Albert Einstein

457 people liked it

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
— Albert Einstein

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"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever."
— June Masters Bacher

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"It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music."
— Honoré de Balzac

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"An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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— Kahlil Gibrán

tags: inspirational
1 person liked it

"
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."
— Kahlil Gibran

1 person liked it

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. "
— Kahlil Gibran

1 person liked it

"Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.
(Translation: The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.)"
— Blaise Pascal (Pascal's Pensees)

tags: heart, love, quip, reason
267 people liked it

"“May you live a thousand years, and I, a thousand less one day; that I might never know the world without you.”"
— N/A.

tags: hungarian, proverb
1 person liked it

"“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”"
— Thomas S. Szasz

tags: hungarian, quote
1 person liked it

"“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought”"
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

tags: hungarian, quote
1 person liked it

"There are some people who will never understand what
loyalty means. They could tell you what it was, of course,
but they will never know.They will never see it from the inside.
They couldn't imagine a world where something like that was real."
— Jim Butcher - First lord

1 person liked it

"Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness
begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you"
— Jim Butcher - Bernard (Furies of Calderon)

1 person liked it

"Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way"
— Jim Butcher - Doroga (Academ's Fury)

1 person liked it

"“If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?”"
— Tom Snyder

tags: humor
51 people liked it

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