Briar > Briar's Quotes

Showing 1-28 of 28

like

#1

“Well,” said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?”

“Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they won’t listen, and neither will Therandil.”

“I didn’t ask what you’d said about it,” the frog snapped. “I asked what you’re going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons

tags: actions-over-words, frog, funny

213 likes

like

#2

“News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, The Mislaid Magician; or, Ten Years After

tags: adventure, danger, worry

21 likes

like

#3

“The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-"
"Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Calling on Dragons

80 likes

like

#4

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

130117 likes

like

#5

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

128886 likes

like

#6

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148352 likes

like

#7

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

114357 likes

like

#9

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep

127092 likes

like

#10

“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

64642 likes

like

#11

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92160 likes

like

#12

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

44328 likes

like

#13

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

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

77733 likes

like

#14

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

60257 likes

like

#15

“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

88110 likes

like

#16

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

tags: life

109288 likes

like

#17

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans

43675 likes

like

#18

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

40763 likes

like

#19

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

69679 likes

like

#20

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life, regrets

18617 likes

like

#21

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

14019 likes

like

#22

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

tags: greatness

3729 likes

like

#23

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: dark, stars

3906 likes

like

#24

“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: spirituality

3607 likes

like

#25

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

4087 likes

like

#26

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

tags: loneliness, memories, pain, share

5753 likes

like

#27

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

7688 likes

like

#28

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11252 likes

like

#29

“The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.”
― Alice Morse Earle

tags: attributed-no-source

105 likes

All Quotes

Tags From Briar’s Quotes

actions-over-words
frog
funny
adventure
danger
worry
ataraxy
be-yourself
confidence
fitting-in
individuality
misattributed-dr-seuss
those-who-matter
dance
heaven
hurt
inspirational
life
love
sing
attributed-no-source
human-nature
humor
infinity
philosophy
science
stupidity
universe
action
change
misattributed-to-gandhi
wish
dreams
reality
sleep
insanity
misattributed-ben-franklin
misattributed-mark-twain
misattributed-to-einstein
lies
lying
memory
truth
misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln
misattributed-to-mark-twain
remaining-silent
wisdom
carpe-diem
education
learning
actions
disappointed
disappointment
dream
explore
sail
friendship
fate
misattributed-john-lennon
planning
plans
misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
accomplishment
conformity
regrets
greatness
dark
stars
spirituality
loneliness
memories
pain
share
hope
inspiration
knowledge