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Quotes

This used to be “Some of my favorite quotes”. But the list is becoming longer and longer, and “some” is no longer the right word for it. Hence: a collection of my favorite quotes, in no particular order.
(Several quotes about religion and atheism were taken from the Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations.)

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People

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Mark Twain

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

Roald Dahl

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Mahatma Gandhi

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Timothy Leary

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Bob Marley

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Dr. Seuss

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.

Katharine Hepburn

Life's a bitch, and then you die.

unknown

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Cicero

God has no religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Leonardo da Vinci

“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

Lewis Carroll, “Alice in Wonderland”

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Dr. Seuss

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Francis of Assisi

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Mark Twain

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll, “Alice in Wonderland”

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

Joss Whedon

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?”

A.A. Milne, “Winnie-the-Pooh”

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Plato

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

Jerry Seinfeld

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

Henry Miller

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

Dr. Seuss

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows and the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.

Audrey Hepburn