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#1

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: friendship, literature

#2

“He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: classic-insult, humor, intelligence, people, stupidity

944 likes

#3

“At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.”
― P.G. Wodehouse , Uneasy Money

tags: adeptness, dexterity, men, poise, superiority, women

569 likes

#4

“I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.”
― P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest

tags: fate, humor, pessimism

447 likes

#5

“What ho!" I said.
"What ho!" said Motty.
"What ho! What ho!"
"What ho! What ho! What ho!"
After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.”
― Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves

tags: conversation, humor, humour

474 likes

#6

“I always advise people never to give advice.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: advice

429 likes

#7

“I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens

tags: hero, humor, imperfect

237 likes

#8

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security

3382 likes

#9

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

6899 likes

#10

“I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: examinations, failure, humor

1194 likes

#11

“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
― James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

tags: democracy, freedom, government, misattributed-ben-franklin, paraphrase-gary-strand

824 likes

#12

“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: enterprise, self-determination

612 likes

#13

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: planning, preparation

1128 likes

#14

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success

tags: knowledge

872 likes

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