Quotes You Like

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

Frederick Douglass

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde, An Ideal husband, 1893
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

'You don't get over grief, you just learn to have it as part of your life.' (unknown)

Books helping introverts avoid conversation since 1454. (from a T-shirt)

Lighthouses don't go running all over an Island; looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining!

Anne Lamott

I know it has been tough, but I am still cheering for you!

Translated quote by Olle Carlsson:

"Today I do the best I can

Life is an amazing improvisational theatre where we go from one stage to another, always facing a new audience without casting or ready lines. We have little or no chance to rehearse and we never know what the next act will be like. If we were to do right all the time, we would have to live our lives backwards."

Cocaine is God's way of telling you that you make too much money

-Robin Williams

It has been in the Oscar Wilde thread but it is still nice:

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

You can't buy happiness
but you can buy fish'n chips and that's kind of the same thing

(read on a food market in Gothenburg)

‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.’ - George Orwell

"For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love."

John Donne

The best way to multiply your happiness is sharing it with others.

Originally posted by @ponderable
The best way to multiply your happiness is sharing it with others.

That one works even better in Dutch and German than in English.

“I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.”
― A.A. Milne