Popular quotes

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“Cat: Where are you going?
Alice: Which way should I go?
Cat: That depends on where you are going.
Alice: I don’t know.
Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

George Orwell book 1984

“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.”

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship

“True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.”

Jane Addams (1860–1935) pioneer settlement social worker

“Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

“Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

“There are only two types of people in this world: those who die for freedom and those who died for their religions. Both are considered martyrs.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”

Marilyn vos Savant (1946) US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.”

Osamu Dazai book The Setting Sun

“Yesterday is but a dream,
Tomorrow is only a vision.
But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”

Kālidāsa Classical Sanskrit writer

“Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

“Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

“Peace, love, empathy”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist