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#1

"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
2,574 people liked it

#2

"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
6,696 people liked it

#3

"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
1,005 people liked it

#4

"Frankly, I don't give a damn.

-Rhett Butler"
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind)

tags: butler, rhett
123 people liked it

#5

"I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind)

tags: inspirational
84 people liked it

#6

""No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how." "
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind)

tags: kissing
146 people liked it

#7

"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"
— Victor Hugo

tags: love, soul, stars
592 people liked it

#8

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"
— Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry
759 people liked it

#9

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. "
— Victor Hugo

tags: courage, inspirational
243 people liked it

#10

"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come."
— Victor Hugo

82 people liked it

#11

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
— Victor Hugo

179 people liked it

#12

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
— Victor Hugo

74 people liked it

#13

"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."
— Victor Hugo

95 people liked it

#14

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
— Victor Hugo

59 people liked it

#15

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
7,780 people liked it

#16

"The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say"
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: road
441 people liked it

#17

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
1,976 people liked it

#18

"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
20,035 people liked it

#19

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
11,765 people liked it

#20

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
2,866 people liked it

#21

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, health, humor, misprints
3,028 people liked it

#22

"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
2,535 people liked it

#23

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said 'I don't know'."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge
1,730 people liked it

#24

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
— Mark Twain

tags: greatness
2,639 people liked it

#25

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
4,970 people liked it

#26

"If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: music, romance, unrequited-love
1,089 people liked it

#27

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

tags: love
3,619 people liked it

#28

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
— William Shakespeare

1,047 people liked it

#29

"There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age."
— Gabriel García Márquez

32 people liked it

#30

"Love her as in childhood
Through feeble, old and grey.
For you’ll never miss a mother’s love
Till she’s buried beneath the clay."
— Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes)

24 people liked it

#31

"He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace."
— Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes)

59 people liked it

#32

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
— Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing
1,388 people liked it

#33

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

tags: inspirational
980 people liked it

#34

"Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly."
— Paulo Coelho

tags: life
221 people liked it

#35

"Start with the end in mind. "
— Stephen R. Covey (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)

tags: management
29 people liked it

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