Quotes

Words worth keeping

2,684 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

— Albert Einstein
Family

Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland.""Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.

— Cassandra Clare
General

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

— Albert Einstein
Art & Beauty

I'm in love with you," he said quietly."Augustus," I said."I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.

— John Green
Love

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.

— Paul Terry
Humor

I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..

— Nicholas Sparks
Love

Sometimes people are beautiful.Not in looks.Not in what they say.Just in what they are.

— Markus Zusak
Life Art & Beauty

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

— John Green
Self & Identity

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

— Bob Marley
Friendship

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

— Dr. Seuss
Books & Writing Education & Knowledge

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

— William Shakespeare
Love

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

— Abraham Lincoln
Happiness

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

— Theodore Roosevelt
Inspirational

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

— Ernest Hemingway
Books & Writing Friendship

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

— Bob Marley
Art & Beauty

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.