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#1

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy

#2

“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

88102 likes

#3

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: truth

16389 likes

#4

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

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

23583 likes

#5

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

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

135517 likes

#6

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151427 likes

#7

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51608 likes

#8

“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

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

37982 likes

#9

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

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47063 likes

#10

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

tags: books, library

29736 likes

#11

“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

23097 likes

#12

“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

25521 likes

#13

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

tags: books, reading

27729 likes

#14

“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

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

13926 likes

#15

“You can't get attention of one who focused on himself.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

tags: attention, center, focus

105 likes

#16

“It took him a while to figure out that gaining an audience was not the same thing as gaining friends.”
― Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land: A Memoir

tags: attention, friends

31 likes

#17

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

45297 likes

#18

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

tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom

16269 likes

#19

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

15489 likes

#20

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom

7771 likes

#21

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: wisdom

8870 likes

#22

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

tags: wisdom

3773 likes

#23

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens”
― Jimi Hendrix

tags: wisdom

3624 likes

#24

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: attributed-no-source

2825 likes

#25

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

4933 likes

#26

“I’m not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I’m dyeing my hair tonight.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

1464 likes

#27

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

50610 likes

#28

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

18014 likes

#29

“In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

tags: choices

2338 likes

#30

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

9524 likes

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