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"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

tags: chocolate, friendship
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"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
— Albert Einstein

142 people liked it

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."
— Groucho Marx

tags: classic-insult
365 people liked it

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
— Groucho Marx

328 people liked it

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. "
— Leo Tolstoy

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"It's too bad stupidity isn't painful."
— Anton Szandor LaVey

tags: stupidity
48 people liked it

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch."
— Orson Welles

tags: food, humor
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"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
5,994 people liked it

"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."
— Aristotle

tags: friends
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"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics
1,494 people liked it

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: friendship, love
1,736 people liked it

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral."
— Leo Tolstoy

tags: animals, morality, vegetarianism
77 people liked it

"This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you."
— Lemony Snicket (The Reptile Room)

tags: humor
183 people liked it

"If you want to be happy, be."
— Leo Tolstoy

83 people liked it

"Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: god, joy
231 people liked it

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
— Leo Tolstoy

tags: beauty, lies, wisdom
83 people liked it

"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."
— Leo Tolstoy

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"If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war."
— Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

tags: war
58 people liked it

"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: care, heart, love, mind, seduction, soul
58 people liked it

"'Exactly!' said Deep Thought. 'So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.'"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: humor
30 people liked it

"Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not."
— Leo Tolstoy

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"Boredom: the desire for desires."
— Leo Tolstoy

tags: truth
27 people liked it

"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
— Douglas Adams

tags: flying
59 people liked it

"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction."
— Leo Tolstoy

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"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking."
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

28 people liked it

"Life did not stop, and one had to live."
— Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

tags: inspirational, life
6 people liked it

"So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause."
— George Lucas

tags: star-wars
38 people liked it

"To get rid of an enemy one must love him. "
— Leo Tolstoy

21 people liked it

""I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious."
"
— Rita Rudner

tags: humor
85 people liked it

"There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before..."
— Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)

tags: eternity
10 people liked it

"Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

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"Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond."
— Leo Tolstoy

18 people liked it

"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

tags: perfection
20 people liked it

"Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped."
— Groucho Marx

101 people liked it

"Princess Leia: "I love you."
Han Solo: "I know.""
— George Lucas

tags: han, leia, love, princess, solo, star, wars
10 people liked it

"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."
— Albert Einstein

tags: creativity
60 people liked it

"…rest, nature, books, music…such is my idea of happiness…"
— Leo Tolstoy

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"I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

tags: authors, challenges, keys, writing
41 people liked it

"If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

18 people liked it

"Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art."
— Louisa May Alcott (A Long Fatal Love Chase)

24 people liked it

"There's always a bigger fish. (Qui-Gon Jin)"
— George Lucas

tags: fiction, george, lucas, reality, science, star, wars
16 people liked it

"Remember, anyone can juggle for a second."
— John Alejandro King

tags: humor
8 people liked it

"I want to do something splendid…
Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead…
I think I shall write books."
— Louisa May Alcott

tags: books, writing
59 people liked it

"Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it."
— George Lucas

6 people liked it

"The secret to film is that it's an illusion."
— George Lucas

2 people liked it

"The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: war
85 people liked it

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
2,141 people liked it

"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
7,427 people liked it

"So you want a knife, a nice sharp knife. You hone that blade to its limits. It even cuts through stone when you want it to. It saves your life. And then you're outraged when it cuts you accidentally. You see, knives don't switch off. And neither do people, not when you hone them to a fine edge."
— Karen Traviss

7 people liked it

"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: life, pain
619 people liked it

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