Suible's favorite quotes

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

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

"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

7,662 people liked it

"Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind."
— Richard Powers

tags: librarians

18 people liked it

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes."
— Walt Whitman

242 people liked it

"There are times when silence has the loudest voice."
— Leroy Brownlow

4 people liked it

"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them."
— Dave Barry

36 people liked it

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
— Auguste Rodin

tags: experience

13 people liked it

"This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum."
— Elbert Hubbard

18 people liked it

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

2,062 people liked it

"Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another."
— Anne Michaels (Fugitive Pieces: A Novel)

tags: love, place

14 people liked it

"Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go"
— Sylvia Robinson

tags: inspirational

22 people liked it

"We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness."
— Dean Koontz

25 people liked it

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."
— John W. Whitehead

6 people liked it

"The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents."
— Carl Gustav Jung

17 people liked it

"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while."
— Josh Billings

5 people liked it

"And she finds it difficult to believe -- that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy."
— Margaret Atwood

44 people liked it

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship, inspirational

616 people liked it

"How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too. "
— Daniel Handler (Adverbs: A Novel)

8 people liked it

"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."
— Terry Pratchett (Thief of Time)

tags: humor

1,771 people liked it

"Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?"

Mort thought for a moment.

"No," he said eventually, "what?"

There was silence.

Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right."
— Terry Pratchett (Mort)

86 people liked it

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories

561 people liked it

"I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: age, inspirational, women

96 people liked it

"It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up at the infinite expanse of creation they have an uncontrollable urge to put something in the way"
— Terry Pratchett

65 people liked it

"Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained."
— Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky)

43 people liked it

"Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness."
— Terry Pratchett (Men at Arms)

48 people liked it

"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."
— Terry Pratchett (The Last Continent)

tags: death, humor, life

857 people liked it

"You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway."
— Scott Adams

tags: food, humor, vegetarian, vegetarianism

126 people liked it

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