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  • #2
    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    Jim Henson

  • #3
    Jane Austen
    “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

  • #4
    Jane Austen
    “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
    Jane Austen

  • #5
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #6
    Nancy Reagan
    “A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.”
    Nancy Reagan

  • #7
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #8
    Wilkie Collins
    “My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #9
    Audrey Hepburn
    “When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #10
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #11
    Winston S. Churchill
    “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #12
    Winston S. Churchill
    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #13
    Winston S. Churchill
    “It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #14
    Rupert Brooke
    “Stands the Church clock at ten to three?
    And is there honey still for tea?”
    Rupert Brooke, The old vicarage, Grantchester

  • #15
    Virginia Woolf
    “Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

  • #16
    “There's a book in you that only you can write.”
    Chris Baty

  • #17
    Stephen  King
    “you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #18
    Kathryn Stockett
    “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
    Kathryn Stockett, The Help

  • #19
    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    Linda Grayson

  • #20
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #21
    Les Brown
    “You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.”
    Les Brown, Live Your Dreams: Les Brown's Formula and Action Planner for Achieving Success and Happiness

  • #22
    Andy Rooney
    “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”
    Andy Rooney

  • #23
    Audrey Hepburn
    “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”
    Audrey Hepburn

  • #24
    Beatrix Potter
    “Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
    Beatrix Potter

  • #25
    Enid Blyton
    “The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.”
    Enid Blyton, Mr Galliano's Circus

  • #26
    Rupert Brooke
    “If I should die, think only this of me:
    That there's some corner of a foreign field
    That is for ever England.”
    Rupert Brooke, 1914, and other poems

  • #27
    Jasper Fforde
    “Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
    Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

  • #28
    Anna Quindlen
    “In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
    Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

  • #29
    Silvia Hartmann
    “Less flapping, more flying!”
    Silvia Hartmann

  • #30
    Pauline Wiles
    “wondering if this was how I was going to end up: eccentric and alone.”
    Pauline Wiles, Saving Saffron Sweeting

  • #31
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    John A. Shedd



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