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  • #1
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I cannot live without books.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #2
    Maurice Switzer
    “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

  • #3
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
    Rumi

  • #4
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #5
    Omar Khayyám
    “Today is the time of my youth
    I drink wine because it is my solace;
    Do not blame me, although it is bitter it is pleasant,
    It is bitter because it is my life.”
    Omar Khayyam

  • #6
    Omar Khayyám
    “Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
    Omar Khayyam, رباعيات خيام

  • #7
    Aristophanes
    “Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”
    Aristophanes

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #9
    John Kennedy Toole
    “My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.”
    John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

  • #10
    “And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you”
    Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

  • #11
    David Sedaris
    “If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
    David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

  • #12
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #13
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #14
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “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

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    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

  • #17
    Louis Pasteur
    “A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”
    Louis Pasteur

  • #18
    Jay McInerney
    “Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up.”
    Jay McInerney

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
    Mark Twain

  • #20
    James Joyce
    “What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?”
    James Joyce

  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain

  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #24
    I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!
    “I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #25
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #27
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “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

  • #29
    Francis of Assisi
    “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
    St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

  • #30
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #31
    L.M. Montgomery
    “It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
    Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables



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