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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.)

Category
People

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

Richelle Mead

There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.

Jim Henson

A friendship that can end never really began.

Publilius Syrus

Friendship is the purest love.

Osho

Friend: person who stands by you and holds your hand when you're fighting your demons.

Stevenvh

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.

Atticus

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de La Fontaine

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Elie Wiesel

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Oscar Wilde

I love asking kids what they want to be when they grow up, because I'm still looking for ideas.

unknown

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Voltaire

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.

Aristophanes

Judge a man by questions rather than by his answers.

Voltaire

Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.

Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him to renounce Satan

I apologize for such a long letter — I didn't have time to write a short one.

Mark Twain

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

Dalai Lama

You had me at hello.

unknown

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

Hippocrates