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#1

“I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

tags: novel

138 people liked it

#2

“Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard Baruch

tags: be-yourself , confidence , fitting-in , individuality , those-who-matter

55,580 people liked it

#3

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance , heaven , hurt , inspirational , life , love , sing

40,986 people liked it

#4

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies , lying , memory , truth

26,850 people liked it

#5

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
― Mark Twain

tags: morals

1,998 people liked it

#6

“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

45,749 people liked it

#7

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: books , classic , humor

15,999 people liked it

#8

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

tags: friends , humor , people

4,547 people liked it

#9

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books , library , reading

4,680 people liked it

#10

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: elizabeth-bennet , jane-austen

1,794 people liked it

#11

“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
― Jane Austen

tags: relaxation

1,432 people liked it

#12

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: love

336 people liked it

#13

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: elizabeth-bennet , forgiveness , injury , mortification , pride

387 people liked it

#14

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags:

407 people liked it

#15

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies , forgiveness , strategy

24,107 people liked it

#16

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism , apathy , hate , indifference , inspirational , love , opposite , philosophy

15,448 people liked it

#17

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

26,333 people liked it

#18

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence , self-deprecation

25,293 people liked it

#19

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― Mark Twain

tags: action , actions , disappointed , disappointment , discover , dream , dreams , explore , sail

26,088 people liked it

#20

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books , humor

28,450 people liked it

#21

“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

26,085 people liked it

#22

“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

28,551 people liked it

#23

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books , soul

33,062 people liked it

#24

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: life

32,155 people liked it

#25

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

tags: literacy

16,152 people liked it

#26

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational , optimism , perception , pessimism

15,906 people liked it

#27

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books , friends , friendship , life

12,212 people liked it

#28

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational

12,116 people liked it

#29

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: education

8,425 people liked it

#30

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books , reading

7,883 people liked it

#31

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books , health , humor , misprints

6,923 people liked it

#32

“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

7,688 people liked it

#33

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

7,013 people liked it

#34

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship , love

6,487 people liked it

#35

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humour

4,547 people liked it

#36

“Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books , classic , reading

5,540 people liked it

#37

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: humor , love , romantic , women

5,446 people liked it

#38

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: humor-heaven

3,799 people liked it

#39

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books , truth

2,684 people liked it

#40

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change , tolstoy

3,358 people liked it

#41

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading , writing

3,243 people liked it

#42

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: books , inspirational , life , reading

3,900 people liked it

#43

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense And Sensibility

tags: love , requirements

3,665 people liked it

#44

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption

tags: life

2,986 people liked it

#45

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: husband , marriage , opening-lines , wife

2,289 people liked it

#46

“Women are made to be loved not understood.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

3,418 people liked it

#47

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: inspirational , life

2,765 people liked it

#48

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom

2,328 people liked it

#49

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: reading

2,322 people liked it

#50

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: books , humor

3,312 people liked it

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