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"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
3,139 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
12,253 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
11,820 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
11,044 people liked it

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,952 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
10,119 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,849 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
9,507 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
8,038 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
8,148 people liked it

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, be-yourself, conformity, individuality, world
7,421 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
6,964 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,780 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
6,606 people liked it

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

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,757 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,901 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work
5,589 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,769 people liked it

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: strength
5,671 people liked it

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

tags: honesty, inspirational
6,257 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,783 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,635 people liked it

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

tags: education
3,280 people liked it

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
3,276 people liked it

"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."
— Mark Twain

tags: animals, cats, dogs, grace
190 people liked it

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women
4,059 people liked it

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: cats
70 people liked it

"“I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.”"
— Jean Cocteau

tags: cats, home
17 people liked it

"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind."
— Cleveland Amory

tags: cats
15 people liked it

"There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person."
— Dan Greenberg

tags: cats
14 people liked it

"Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?"
— John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)

tags: cats
9 people liked it

"Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds."
— Jean Burden (Celebration of Cats)

tags: cats
7 people liked it

"There are several cats smoothly moving about, which helped me greatly to relax, for I have always felt that no house is wholly bad where there are cats, and conversely, where there are several cats, a house is bound to be wonderfully charming."
— Hans Holzer (The Ghost Hunter)

tags: cats, supernatural
6 people liked it

"To err is human; to purr, feline."
— Robert Byrne

tags: byrne, cats, feline, robert
7 people liked it

"“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”"
— Jules Verne

tags: cats
6 people liked it

"A black cat among roses,
phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,
the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still.
It is dazed with moonlight,
contented with perfume..."
— Amy Lowell

tags: cats, garden, lilac, poetry
4 people liked it

"Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
— Mark Twain

tags: cats
55 people liked it

"A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: cats
41 people liked it

"Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience."
— Pam Brown

tags: cats
35 people liked it

" There are no ordinary cats."
— Colette

tags: cats
24 people liked it

"One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home."
— Pam Brown

tags: cats, home
16 people liked it

"A home without a cat - and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat - may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove the title?"
— Mark Twain

tags: cats, home
16 people liked it

"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons."
— Robertson Davies

tags: authors, books, cats
15 people liked it

"I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often."
— Julio Cortázar (Around the Day in Eighty Worlds)

tags: cats, reading
6 people liked it

"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: cats, philosophy
6 people liked it

"When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?"
— Michel de Montaigne (Apology for Raymond Sebond)

tags: cats, relativism
2 people liked it

"The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women."
— William Lyon Phelps

tags: cats
2 people liked it

""I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
"Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice." "
— Terry Pratchett

tags: cats, death, life
4 people liked it

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
160 people liked it

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
144 people liked it

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