I used to think that I didn’t like quotes, but then at one point I realized I’m attracted to different ones than most people. I don’t often like common ones, especially common inspirational ones, so I keep an on-going list of quotes around. (It’s perfect, I like to collect things and make lists.)
I like to keep ones that stand out to me and resonate with me, obviously, and that’s usually through a sort of tongue-in-cheek humor, my beliefs or a specific emotional tone that I can’t quite put my finger on – maybe nostalgia.
And I want to share my favorites!
“But I stumbled into this argument unintentionally in the course of my speech, rather than because I planned it so.” – Aristides
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” – Oscar Wilde
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” – Oscar Wilde
“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.” – David Hume
“All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”
“What’s for breakfast? said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
“It’s the same thing,” he said. – Winnie the Pooh“Hell is full of good wishes or desires.” – St. Bernard of Clairvaux
“Do not be troubled by Bernard’s saying that “Hell is full of good wishes or desires.” – St. Francis de Sales
“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.” – Pope John Paul II
“I wish I could transport all my friends to my favorite hang out spots and we could stay up all night eating, drinking, laughing, taking photos, and wandering the streets without a destination.” – Sean Marc Lee
“Nostalgia is a seductive liar.” – George Wildman
“Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don’t have any surface noise. I said, ‘Listen, mate, life has surface noise’.” – John Peel
“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s as good as they’re going to feel all day.” – Frank Sinatra
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” – Steve Martin
“The study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.” – Thomas Aquinas
“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.” – John Locke
“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.” – Thomas Jefferson
“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.” – Oscar Wilde
“People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.” – Soren Kierkegaard
“People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it’s impossible to count them accurately.”
― Oscar Wilde“Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.”
― Oscar Wilde“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.” ― Oscar Wilde
“How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?” ― John Locke
“A little philosophy makes a man an atheist: a great deal converts him to religion.” ― David Hume
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.” ― John Green
“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” ― St. Thomas Aquinas
“To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.” ― John Locke
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” ― Oscar Wilde
“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.” ― Oscar Wilde
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.” – J.K. Rowling
As you can see, I like Oscar Wilde quotes, haha.
I also love quotes from Mean Girls, Rent and A Very Potter Musical, but that will have to be for another day. 😉
So, if you made it through this long list, share with me your favorite quotes?
