Tensy's quotes

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"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason "
— Jerry Seinfeld

tags: humor
212 people liked it

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
— Groucho Marx

202 people liked it

"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
5,640 people liked it

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
— Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom
803 people liked it

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading
1,341 people liked it

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans
7,032 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
6,314 people liked it

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
2,057 people liked it

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

tags: books, classic, reading
1,768 people liked it

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

tags: education
3,168 people liked it

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

tags: literacy
6,203 people liked it

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

tags: humor, procrastination
5,709 people liked it

"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
630 people liked it

"If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

106 people liked it

"Who is John Galt?"
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart
75 people liked it

"This too shall pass..."
— Abraham Lincoln

346 people liked it

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
— Abraham Lincoln

398 people liked it

"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: books
353 people liked it

"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family."
— Jerry Seinfeld

tags: family
56 people liked it

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

tags: classic-insult
388 people liked it

"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'."
— Groucho Marx

tags: friends, humor, jail
773 people liked it

"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, wife
858 people liked it

"I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other."
— Jane Austen (Emma)

221 people liked it

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
— Jane Austen

366 people liked it

"Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort."
— Jane Austen

tags: relaxation
407 people liked it

"Tell me why the stars do shine,
Tell me why the ivy twines,
Tell me what makes skies so blue,
And I'll tell you why I love you.

Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine,
Tropisms make the ivy twine,
Raleigh scattering make skies so blue,
Testicular hormones are why I love you. "
— Isaac Asimov

34 people liked it

"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: censorship
52 people liked it

"There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library."
— Ray Bradbury

63 people liked it

"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: science, wonder
73 people liked it

"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
— Martin Niemöller

28 people liked it

"If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example. "
— Anne Frank (The Diary of a Young Girl)

tags: inspirational, jewish
14 people liked it

"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself. Never."
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— Elie Weisel

2 people liked it

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: death, life
71 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,288 people liked it

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

tags: life
11,454 people liked it

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

tags: books, soul
11,341 people liked it

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

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,611 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,525 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,269 people liked it

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

tags: life
7,283 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,708 people liked it

"We've had some fun tonight...considering we're all gonna die someday."
— Steve Martin

53 people liked it

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

tags: strength
5,428 people liked it

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. "
— Bill Gates

tags: humor, work
3,807 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
2,914 people liked it

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

tags: women
3,130 people liked it

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead

tags: activism, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
2,136 people liked it