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  • #1
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #2
    Chris Rock
    “You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?”
    Chris Rock

  • #3
    Horace Walpole
    “The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
    Horace Walpole

  • #4
    Mel Brooks
    “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”
    Mel Brooks

  • #5
    Frank Zappa
    “A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.”
    Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

  • #6
    Octavia E. Butler
    “In order to rise
    From its own ashes
    A phoenix
    First
    Must
    Burn.”
    Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #7
    Terry Pratchett
    “Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.'
    'Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others.
    'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl.”
    Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  • #8
    “The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: "It's a girl.”
    Shirley Chisholm

  • #9
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #15
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “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

  • #16
    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    Albert Camus

  • #17
    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    Albert Camus

  • #18
    Albert Camus
    “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
    Albert Camus

  • #19
    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    Albert Camus

  • #20
    Albert Camus
    “I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #21
    Albert Camus
    “At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
    Albert Camus

  • #22
    Albert Camus
    “Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”
    Albert Camus

  • #23
    Albert Camus
    “When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
    Albert Camus, The First Man

  • #24
    Albert Camus
    “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

    [The Minotaur]”
    Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

  • #25
    Albert Camus
    “Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
    Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “When good Americans die, they go to Paris'.

    'Where do bad Americans go?'

    'They stay in America'.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

  • #28
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #30
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou



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