All generalizations are false, including this one.

Author: Mark Twain

Author: Mark Twain

Quote #266787

Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic

Author: Victor Klemperer
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Don't grieve over the past, It's all gone!Don't worry about the future, It may never come! Live in t

Author: Mouloud Benzadi
Quote #4087

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

Author: Junot Díaz
Quote #309531

I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was that

Author: David Foster Wallace
Quote #382635

A combination of fine tea, enchanting objects and soothing surroundings exerts a therapeutic effect

Author: John Blofeld
Quote #200548

Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. A

Author: Sarvenaz Tash
Quote #394175

Lose your freedom, and become a slave by borrowing.

Author: Auliq Ice
Quote #316241

All work is service. If you aren't serving in your work, you really aren't working.

Author: Tim Hiller
Quote #379736

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your gard

Author: Nora Roberts
Quote #353197

Chronic pain patients like me are not the cause of the opioid crisis; only 22% of those who misuse o

Author: Sonya Huber
Quote #282943

...and they all lived as happily as they allowed themselves to be.

Author: Steffani Raff
Quote #500481

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people

Author: Henry Rollins
Quote #222890

The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you're holding a pen and the other guy's holding a

Author: Dave Besseling
Quote #484586

I like children - fried.

Author: W. C. Fields
Quote #449858

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz abou

Author: Caroline Leavitt
Quote #313890

What you misplace today, will misplace you tomorrow

Author: JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA
Quote #439521

Every large brand has franchisees and stores that don't make it. It's unfortunate, and Cold Stone di

Author: Doug Ducey
Quote #32724

You know what they say about hope, it breeds eternal misery

Author: Spencer Hastings
Quote #94635

No tears are wasted. It is deepest soul soothing.

Author: Unknown
Quote #185868

The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his co

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #360063

Money is my drug of choice--and you can't make money if you're always stoned or high. (Twila Taunton

Author: Trish Jackson
Quote #474010

Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got

Author: Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Quote #336986

I’m serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.

Author: Vicki Covington
Quote #30355

The first two things Gaudencio Rivera was made aware of--within hours of arriving by carabao-drawn c

Author: Dean Francis Alfar
Quote #190680

The door of true knowledge will opento the light

Author: Eleazar
Quote #189642

It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find

Author: Hugh Prather
Quote #246402

Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.

Author: Sara Sheridan
Quote #339355

I just looked you in TedX, I just check out... you had a problem in one of the eyes... probably and

Author: Deyth Banger
Quote #469252

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason,

Author: George Berkeley
Quote #381736

You guys are so... dark. Even if I used flash, I'm not sure it would come out.""Y-yeah," Percy manag

Author: Rick Riordan
Quote #440608

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the mom

Author: Henry Drummond
Quote #27914

Use ‘Why?’ to help you follow the breadcrumbs back to the source of the problem.

Author: Stephen Richards
Quote #42241

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing fo

Author: Unknown
Quote #187622

It is better to be a reader than richer.

Author: Unknown
Quote #85093

I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country.

Author: Howard Dean
Quote #414303

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Author: Queen Elizabeth I
Quote #42370

I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my wri

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Quote #273011

So many times the debate of abortion turns to legality. The issue is not legality, the issue is mora

Author: Derrick Sanderson
Quote #84838

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

Author: Aristophanes
Quote #342144

She wasn’t thinking about making it rich, she wasn’t that delusional. But at least here was somethin

Author: Jordan Silver
Quote #138442

Immortality is the new twenty!

Author: Erin Fall Haskell
Quote #406424

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.

Author: J. C. F. von Schiller
Quote #455910

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrim

Author: Nhat Hanh
Quote #418625

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows on

Author: Marya Mannes
Quote #59984

Weetzie could see him--it was a man, a little man in a turban, with a jewel in his nose, harem pants

Author: Francesca Lia Block
Quote #88598

There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.And others who always l

Author: Nina George
Quote #150868

What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

Author: Margaret Laurence
Quote #389009

Be who you are,nobody likes to be copied!

Author: Morgan Musseau
Quote #376813

The simplicity and the complexity are just the opposite ends of the same spectrum.

Author: Pearl Zhu
Quote #165139

As an individual I stand out.As a member of society, you don't.

Author: Anthony T. Hincks
Quote #30128

Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.

Author: William Shakespeare
Quote #16357

Be prepared to be on the race to fulfill and to achieve fulfillment.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #462383

I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I reme

Author: Yehuda Amichai
Quote #13628

From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persu

Author: Donna J. Haraway
Quote #286817

But if government is in the business of promoting what is good and suppressing the bad, that is a li

Author: Unknown
Quote #279863

Reading the word of God is so refreshing.

Author: Unknown
Quote #388359

Her legs swing complete afternoons away.

Author: Jill Eisenstadt
Quote #96645

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars,

Author: Stephen King
Quote #489891

I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love bein

Author: Pamela Anderson
Quote #313264

The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.

Author: Umberto Eco
Quote #360867

No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals we

Author: Milan Kundera
Quote #267194

Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.

Author: Philippos
Quote #449988

There has never been, and there will never be, another human who will be more successful than the hu

Author: Monica Johnson
Quote #469535

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer th

Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard
Quote #72786

Celebrate your life now, as it unfolds. Turn away from judgement and negative theories about your wo

Author: Danny Gregory
Quote #16859

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

Author: C.S. Lewis
Quote #5771

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything b

Author: Leo Tolstoy
Quote #210923

The plan God has doesn’t just involve us as individuals, but also the people who share part of our l

Author: Ron Baratono
Quote #150869

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from the

Author: Max Ernst
Quote #36603

If your prudence stops you every time from taking an action, then you are no more prudent, you are f

Author: Amit Kalantri
Quote #334154

This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, w

Author: Geoff Ryman
Quote #344569

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realise that what you

Author: Anonymous
Quote #367911

Sit there and look pretty.

Author: Hissa AlBoot AlShehhi
Quote #330774

I think that after a revolution a man needs a few years to get used to the new era. I knew from my l

Author: Bakhtiyar Ali
Quote #165890

A healthy society begins with healthy individuals.

Author: Sabina Nore
Quote #364395

If this all works which I have read and some of which I have written did happen just one year... the

Author: Deyth Banger
Quote #364684

If you hurt Muse, I will hunt you down, use every rusted weapon I own, cut off your precious parts a

Author: Pippa DaCosta
Quote #493060

To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'

Author: Rita Rudner
Quote #292518

As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enou

Author: David Christian
Quote #124287

People search in vain forever to find what we've got. I don't know shit about anything, Jenna, and I

Author: Tia Williams
Quote #305953

When we were little kids, 'friend' wasn't a verb. You didn't 'friend' someone. You had friends. It w

Author: Daniel Ehrenhaft
Quote #350443

Narcissistic love is riding on the rollecoaster of disaster filled with a heart full of tears.

Author: Sheree' Griffin
Quote #167947

Failure is a part of life. Success teaches you nothing, but failure teaches you resilience. It teach

Author: Sarah Morgan
Quote #52591

Unfortunately, he still hadn’t asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink

Author: Kimberly Novosel
Quote #262477

Rain turned to ice,and lightning splintered, it splicedthe black sky, it seeped a bright white.All a

Author: A. Lee Brock
Quote #30172

Amy, listen to me. What I do. The choices I make. They're mine. Only mine. The consequences of those

Author: Cindy Gerard
Quote #388394

But, standing in the fading golden sunlight now, I can feel some of the scars of the summer stabbing

Author: Aimee Friedman
Quote #376634

People need books for a better life. Books are a way of self-nurturing.

Author: Love The Stacks Bookstore
Quote #3432

Life isn’t about what you get, it’s about what you DO with what you get.

Author: Stephanie Perkins
Quote #415535

To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

Author: Horace Mann
Quote #339300

Most of the times we work towards calming our nerves & adapting to live with the problems, rather th

Author: Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
Quote #367094

It might have interested Newt to know that, of the thirty-nine thousand women tested with the pin du

Author: Terry Pratchett
Quote #83063

Is this what you do with your spare time?” he asked me, ignoring his sister.“What—are you deciding t

Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Quote #73836

Blessed are the ones who bless others with time

Author: Unknown
Quote #134481

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for r

Author: Meg Rosoff
Quote #299396

I found that I couldn't muster any belief in a literal heaven or hell, anyway. I thought the best we

Author: Octavia E. Butler
Quote #349003

With this in mind, Ava tells herself to be present and celebrate the holiday instead of wishing it w

Author: Elin Hilderbrand
Quote #16992

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying

Author: Mark Twain
Quote #312647

Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against

Author: Murray N. Rothbard