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"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,878 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
7,407 people liked it

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
— Dr. Seuss (Happy Birthday to You!)

tags: comedy, life, yourself
1,640 people liked it

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
2,264 people liked it

"Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: funny, humor, inconceivable, movies
1,695 people liked it

"Whenever a man does a thouroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest of motives."
— Oscar Wilde

54 people liked it

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
1,501 people liked it

"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer"
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor, wit
1,408 people liked it

"I am too fond of reading books to care to write them."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: dorian, gray
103 people liked it

"Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: consistency
81 people liked it

"Punctuality is the thief of time"
— Oscar Wilde

50 people liked it

"Everything popular is wrong."
— Oscar Wilde

47 people liked it

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
— Oscar Wilde

44 people liked it

"Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties."
— Oscar Wilde

39 people liked it

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

35 people liked it

"One should always be a little improbable."
— Oscar Wilde

19 people liked it

"And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal"
— Oscar Wilde

16 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,853 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
— Donna Roberts

tags: friendship
1,346 people liked it

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
— Aristotle

tags: friendship, soul
634 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
17,865 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
15,780 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
6,071 people liked it

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

tags: books, classic, reading
1,711 people liked it

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."
— Mark Twain

tags: censorship, food
1,012 people liked it

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

419 people liked it

"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, reading
270 people liked it

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
— Mark Twain

tags: bank, bankers, humor
240 people liked it

"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more."
— Mark Twain

176 people liked it

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
— Mark Twain

tags: inspirational, kindness
147 people liked it

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."
— Mark Twain

tags: happiness
146 people liked it

"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
— Mark Twain

97 people liked it

"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is."
— Mark Twain

48 people liked it

"The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself."
— Mark Twain

44 people liked it

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."
— Mark Twain

33 people liked it

"If we were supposed to talk more than listen we would have been given two mouths and one ear."
— Mark Twain

tags: listening, speach
33 people liked it

"Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it."
— Mark Twain

tags: writing
31 people liked it

" “Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”"
— Oscar Wilde (The Happy Prince and Other Tales)

tags: inspirational
9 people liked it

"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. "
— Dr. Seuss

94 people liked it

"Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how."
— Dr. Seuss (The Cat in the Hat)

69 people liked it

"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
— Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

tags: life
885 people liked it

"Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: love
426 people liked it

"It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: hats, humor
389 people liked it

"Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck."
— Lemony Snicket

363 people liked it

"It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: ice-cream-sandwhiches, leaving-home
265 people liked it

"...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit."
— Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning)

tags: crying
194 people liked it

"When some is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: comfort, crying, tears
156 people liked it

"Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: humor
112 people liked it

"If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "WEll this isn't to bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed" but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm,!""
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

73 people liked it

"Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fists against the floor, and leave tearstains all over your pillowcase, sheets, and boomerang collection."
— Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

tags: english, humor
51 people liked it

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