Quotes - Rob (Cedar Park, TX) Showing 1-30 of 101

#1

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

tags: books, reading

27739 likes

#2

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

8989 likes

#3

“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
― George Burns

937 likes

#4

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: inspiration

4196 likes

#5

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: travel

5314 likes

#6

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, simile

22502 likes

#7

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton

tags: history

3019 likes

#8

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

21433 likes

#9

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
― Emily Dickinson

3932 likes

#10

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

tags: books, reading

5868 likes

#11

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

tags: distance, time

3214 likes

#12

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: science

4212 likes

#13

“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
― Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

tags: chocolate, strength

2171 likes

#14

“The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard

tags: free

1307 likes

#15

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

tags: humor-cats-allergies

4304 likes

#16

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

2359 likes

#17

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

tags: life

109287 likes

#18

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
― Ovid, Heroides

1302 likes

#19

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

2277 likes

#20

“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
― Orson Welles

tags: dinner, humor

1263 likes

#21

“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

tags: past

2607 likes

#22

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

3027 likes

#23

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

4026 likes

#24

“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
― Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères

tags: time

1578 likes

#25

“If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost

tags: industriousness, inspirational

1182 likes

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