Ted > Ted's Quotes

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

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“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

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”
― Thomas Szasz

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.
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We leave you a tradition with a future.
The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.
People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.
Never throw out anybody.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.”
― Sam Levenson, In One Era & Out the Other

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut