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  • #2
    Phyllis Diller
    “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
    Phyllis Diller

  • #3
    David Hume
    “Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
    David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays

  • #4
    Sigmund Freud
    “The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #5
    Benjamin Franklin
    “To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #6
    Marlene Dietrich
    “Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
    Marlene Dietrich

  • #7
    Margaret Atwood
    “Gardening is not a rational act.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #8
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #9
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #10
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #11
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #12
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #13
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #14
    G. Stanley Hall
    “Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely, for play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.”
    G. Stanley Hall, Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion

  • #15
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #16
    Scott Adams
    “I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”
    Scott Adams

  • #17
    Albert Einstein
    “Love is a better master than duty.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #18
    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    Alfred Tennyson

  • #19
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #20
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • #21
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #22
    W.P. Kinsella
    “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”
    W.P. Kinsella

  • #23
    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

  • #24
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    Henry Ward Beecherr

  • #25
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Do you like him much?'
    I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.'
    Is he?'
    All boys are.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Villette
    tags: boys

  • #26
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth

  • #27
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #28
    “Literature is what intelligent people have instead of dope.”
    Patrick Hemingway

  • #29
    Socrates
    “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
    Socrates

  • #30
    Socrates
    “Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”
    Socrates

  • #31
    Socrates
    “Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
    Socrates



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