Wise thoughts and quotes 9
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“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.
J.K. Rowling
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People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
Flannery O'Connor
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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honoré de Balzac
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When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.
Johnny Depp
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
Marcus Aurelius
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein
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He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.
J.K. Rowling
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Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
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Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Karl Marx
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Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Bob Marley
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Søren Kierkegaard
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Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
Robert L. Peters
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo
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I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.
Johnny Depp
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville
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Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
Rumi
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So many books, so little time.
Frank Zappa
