If anone has the patience to go through this list - I think it's worth it - enjoy. They're only some of my favorite quotations, I have enough pity on everyone not to put the full list ;)
Favorite Quotes
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read. - Mark Twain
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice - Mark Twain
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. - J.R.R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. - Mark Twain
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. - Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited. - Douglas Adams in The Salmon of Doubt
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. - J.K. Rowling in Harry Potter
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. - Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. - Mark Twain
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain
Courage is found in unlikely places. - Can't Remember who ;)
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain
Don't let schooling interfere with your education. - Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream. - Mark Twain
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. - Terry Pratchett (I think)
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. - Terry Pratchett
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - Mark Twain
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. - Terry Pratchett in (I think) Small Gods
I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. - J.R.R. Tolkien
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. - Mark Twain
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - J.R.R. Tolkien (or Bilbo) in The Lord of the Rings
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. - Mark Twain
It's a dangerous business going out your front door - J.R.R. Tolkien (or Bilbo) in The Lord of the Rings
Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement. - Mark Twain
Life? Don't talk to me about life! - Douglas Adams (or Marvin the Paranoid Android) in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. - I Can't Remember Who
The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning. - Douglas Adams (or Arthur Dent) in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now. - Can't Remember Who
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! - Terry Pratchett in The Truth
There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. - Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Mark Twain
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams (or Ford Prefect) in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Today must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. - Douglas Adams (or Arthur Dent) in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack. - Terry Pratchettt in Small Gods
Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself. - Mark Twain
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