Quotes - Heather (Seattle, WA) Showing 1-30 of 31

#1

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

tags: books

5874 likes

#2

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135708 likes

#3

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

64717 likes

#4

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

77834 likes

#5

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71745 likes

#6

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88151 likes

#7

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

177592 likes

#8

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

74464 likes

#9

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47078 likes

#10

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

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

33897 likes

#11

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29735 likes

#12

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

23107 likes

#13

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

tags: books, reading

25532 likes

#14

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

tags: books, reading

27755 likes

#15

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

tags: chocolate, friendship

16488 likes

#16

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

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

27900 likes

#17

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: books

7347 likes

#18

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

7420 likes

#19

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, journey, reading, travel

5251 likes

#20

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

tags: reading

13689 likes

#21

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
― Terry Pratchett

4291 likes

#22

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
― John Lennon

2303 likes

#23

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor

26812 likes

#24

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

21190 likes

#25

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

26917 likes

#26

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

tags: humor-heaven

9708 likes

#27

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: age

8483 likes

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