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#1

“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

51606 likes

#2

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

26440 likes

#3

“There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)”
― D. J. MacHale, The Quillan Games

tags: clowns, humor, people

1396 likes

#4

“Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots”
― Albert Einstein

tags: fashion, humor

389 likes

#5

“And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.”
― Christopher Moore, Bite Me

tags: simile

67 likes

#6

“Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

tags: christianity

1002 likes

#7

“Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”
― Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job

tags: parents

485 likes

#8

“I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.”
― Rita Rudner

tags: humor

652 likes

#9

“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”
― Mae West

860 likes

#10

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

tags: progress

2235 likes

#11

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

tags: books, reading

4669 likes

#12

“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.”
― Holbrook Jackson

tags: books, procrastination, reading

202 likes

#13

“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
― Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

tags: family, friendship, humor

3675 likes

#14

“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: death, murder

963 likes

#15

“Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: death

196 likes

#16

“You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: humor, malediction

757 likes

#17

“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: art, haunted, house, nature

1038 likes

#18

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics

10120 likes

#19

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: agree

2674 likes

#20

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: manners, wit

697 likes

#21

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
― Albert Einstein

tags: science

8415 likes

#22

“Science is the topography of ignorance.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

tags: ignorance, science

31 likes

#23

“I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

tags: funny, hate, sensitive

303 likes

#24

“Friends are like bras, attached near your heart for support. Foes are like panties, deported, every now and then, when they get dirty.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

tags: friends, funny, inspirational, love

73 likes

#25

“Plus, in one of his e-mails, the guy said he didn't like pancakes. What kind of asshole doesn't like pancakes? ”
― A.J. Jacobs, The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment

tags: funny

43 likes

#26

“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: reality

1467 likes

#27

“There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: psychology

1406 likes

#28

“My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

tags: humor, science-fiction

620 likes

#29

“To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

646 likes

#30

“So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed.
The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths.
Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: jobs, life, vogons, work

85 likes

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