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#1

“This moment contains all moments.”
― C.S. Lewis

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#2

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

35263 likes

#3

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

34466 likes

#4

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne

11394 likes

#5

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge

6884 likes

#6

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor, taste

5970 likes

#7

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, men, women

4698 likes

#8

“I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.”
― Rodney Dangerfield

tags: crime, funny, humour, neighborhoods

3717 likes

#9

“We musn't let anything happen to Piggy, must we?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

tags: lord-of-the-flies

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#10

“Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

tags: lord-of-the-flies

49 likes

#11

“Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

tags: comedy, encouragement, humor, steve-martin

596 likes

#12

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92189 likes

#13

“Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.”
― John Wayne

28 likes

#14

“We’re burnin’ daylight.”
― John Wayne

94 likes

#15

“I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”
― John Wayne "The Shootist"

239 likes

#16

“A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.”
― John Wayne

234 likes

#17

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success

23481 likes

#18

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]”
― Winston S. Churchill, Wealth, War and Wisdom

tags: admiration, classic-insult, vice, virtue

922 likes

#19

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
― Winston Churchhill

tags: giving

1126 likes

#20

“When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.”
― Rodney Dangerfield

tags: found, humor, kids, moving, parents

319 likes

#21

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
― C.S. Lewis

4759 likes

#22

“You can make anything by writing.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: writing

2983 likes

#23

“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

tags: religion

1015 likes

#24

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: happiness, pain

997 likes

#25

“Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: c-s-lewis

776 likes

#26

“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”
― C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

821 likes

#27

“The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

87 likes

#28

“Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

tags: shadowfeet

71 likes

#29

“You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

60 likes

#30

“You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

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