Big Books of Spring

Teri > Teri's Quotes

Showing 1-28 of 28
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Neil Gaiman
    “It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
    tags: fallibility, humor
    2422 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
    148592 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Chaim Potok
    “I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
    ― Chaim Potok, The Chosen
    tags: silence
    2393 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135709 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
    119256 likes

    • like
  • #6
    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
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44345 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Philip Pullman
    “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
    ― Philip Pullman
    tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing
    4561 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Elbert Hubbard
    “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted By Ali Baba And The Bunch On Rainy Days
    tags: foolishness, inspirational
    1306 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
    109442 likes

    • like
  • #10
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64721 likes

    • like
  • #11
    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
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71746 likes

    • like
  • #12
    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
    tags: wisdom
    45375 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
    35264 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Robert J. Sawyer
    “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
    ― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God
    2275 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
    3027 likes

    • like
  • #16
    William Goldman
    “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
    ― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
    tags: life, pain
    6218 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Audre Lorde
    “Your silence will not protect you.”
    ― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
    tags: protection, silence, speech
    2918 likes

    • like
  • #18
    William Ernest Henley
    “It matters not how strait the gate,
    How charged with punishments the scroll,
    I am the master of my fate:
    I am the captain of my soul.”
    ― William Ernest Henley, Echoes of Life and Death
    tags: captain, fate, master
    2293 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Shel Silverstein
    “Do a loony-goony dance
    'Cross the kitchen floor,
    Put something silly in the world
    That ain't been there before.”
    ― Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic
    tags: dance, silly
    1883 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
    6686 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Dante Alighieri
    “Do not be afraid; our fate
    Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, Inferno
    tags: faith, fate, fear
    3293 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Bei Dao
    “In the world I am
    Always a stranger
    I do not understand its language
    It does not understand my silence”
    ― Bei Dao
    2496 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source
    7142 likes

    • like
  • #24
    J.M. Richards
    “If you want to call it quits, just tell me. Man up and say it to my face. Don’t just skulk around.”
    ― J.M. Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
    tags: anna-and-chad, awkward, awkward-moments, breakup, breakup-quotes, breakups, call-it-quites, fights, j-m-richards, jerk-boyfriend, jerks, man-up, tall-dark-streak-of-lighting, tdsol
    36 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
    17578 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Louise Erdrich
    “When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
    ― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves
    tags: athe-plague-of-dives
    2639 likes

    • like
  • #27
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
    21869 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    85065 likes



Rss
All Quotes



Tags From Teri’s Quotes

fallibility
humor
attributed-no-source
human-nature
infinity
philosophy
science
stupidity
universe
silence
books
simile
soul
life
misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln
misattributed-to-mark-twain
remaining-silent
wisdom
needs
stories
storytelling
writing
foolishness
inspirational
insanity
misattributed-ben-franklin
misattributed-mark-twain
misattributed-to-einstein
intelligence
self-deprecation
obvious
pain
protection
speech
captain
fate
master
dance
silly
faith
fear
anna-and-chad
awkward
awkward-moments
breakup
breakup-quotes
breakups
call-it-quites
fights
j-m-richards
jerk-boyfriend
jerks
man-up
tall-dark-streak-of-lighting
tdsol
magic
reading
athe-plague-of-dives
bilbo
journey
lost
quest
travel
wander