"Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book"
- Bill Watterson 'Calvin and Hobbes'
miscellaneous , Bill Watterson , comfort , rain , reading-books
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"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
- Woody Allen
"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
- Linda Grayson
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."
- Platomiscellaneous , Plato , creativity , love , romantic
"The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time."
- John Barrymore
"Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?"
- John Barrymore
"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible nature. Unaware that the nature he destroys is the God he worships."
- Hubert Reevesmiscellaneous , Hubert Reeves , deep-thoughtful , environmental-protection , god , humanity , man , nature , religion , seeking-god , worship
"We are eagles of one nest, the nest is in our soul."
- Led Zeppelin excerpted lyrics from the song 'Ten Years Gone'
miscellaneous , Led Zeppelin , connection , love , relationship , romantic , songs-lyrics , soul
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies"
- George RR Martin said by Jojen Reed in 'A Dance with Dragons'
miscellaneous , George RR Martin , fiction-novels , reading-books
"Physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training."
- Mahatma Gandhi referring to the School education system. Quoted from 'My Experiments with Truth'
miscellaneous , motivational , Mahatma Gandhi , education , fitness , school , training , workout-exercise
"A good friend will always stab you in the front."
- Oscar Wilde
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde from 'The Happy Prince and Other Stories'
miscellaneous , Oscar Wilde , funny , humor
"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Literature is my utopia"
- Helen Keller
"Opinions are like orgasms Mine matters the most and I really don't care if you have one."
- Sylvia Plath
"A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit it's people. It is a never failing spring in the desert."
- Andrew Carnegieinspiring , miscellaneous , Andrew Carnegie , education , learning , reading-books , society
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
- Groucho Marx
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself."
- Groucho Marx
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know."
- Groucho Marx
"Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well"
- Mark Twainmiscellaneous , Mark Twain , funny , humor
"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done."
- Rita Mae Brown
"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory"
- Rita Mae Brown
"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
- Franklin P Jones
"What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce"
- Karl Lagerfeld
"In 1965, running wasn’t even a sport. It wasn’t popular, it wasn’t unpopular- it just was. To go out for a three-mile run was something weirdos did, presumably to burn off manic energy. Running for pleasure, running for exercise, running for endorphins, running to live better and longer- these things were unheard of. People often went out of their way to mock runners. Drivers would slow down and honk their horns. 'Get a horse!' they'd yell, throwing a beer or soda at the runner's head."
- Phil Knight from his autobiography 'Shoe Dog'
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
- Mark Twain haha
"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made."
- Jean Giraudoux
"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."
- Dave Barrymiscellaneous , Dave Barry , dogs , funny
"Who says nothing is impossible? I've been doing nothing for years."
- Anonymous
"Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort."
- Jane Austenmiscellaneous , Jane Austen , home , relax
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein
"When students cheat on exams it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning."
- Neil deGrasse Tysonmiscellaneous , Neil deGrasse Tyson , education , learning , school
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
- Anthony Oettinger
"With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
"The old days had no glitter but they had a charm, a beauty, a slow-paced glamour."
- Margaret Mitchellmiscellaneous , Margaret Mitchell , beauty , good-old-days , nostalgia , past , slow-down
"I want the old days back again and they’ll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them."
- Margaret Mitchell
"I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
- Socrates
"Happiness? That’s nothing more than good health and a poor memory"
- Albert Schweitzer
"There is no love sincerer than the love of food"
- George Bernard Shaw