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The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest.


Edouard R. Laboulaye

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.
INDIAN PROVERB Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Love, what you DO, Respect, who DOES for you, Appreciate, who DOES for others, Salute, who DOES for ...
PRITISH PATTANAIK If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY And they say
She's in the class A Team
Stuck in her daydream
Been that way since eigh...
ED SHEERAN Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man ge...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. Status quos are made to be broken.
RAY A. DAVIS I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Let the wind blow, lad
Let fall the deep snow,
Let the stars fall, lad
we'll answer ...
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The worst things in life come free to us
ED SHEERAN Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. I have to get out.
VERONICA ROTH A new day simply means all our errors of the previous day has been forgiven us,we can now re-begin a...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no ...
AGESILAUS THE SECOND A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK There have been many times in my life when I have felt helpless. It is perhaps the most acute pain a...
R.A. SALVATORE in these shitty plastic days ...
GILLIAN FLYNN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your ...
VERONICA ROTH I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's too cold outside
For angels to fly
An angel will die
Covered in white
Close...
ED SHEERAN He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI A rocky road is best at the beginning of a journey, in my opinion, if you get past the bumps you rea...
BOBBY W. MILLER The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It...
JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET Open your mind. Accept differences. Yearn for peace. Heal the world.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the gr...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place...
ANKITA SINGHAL Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN He thought much but said little.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Loving someone selflessly would mean sharing their happiness whether you are part of that happiness ...
SANDHYA JANE Let go! Gollum,' he said. 'This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The simplest way to better the world is one good deed at a time.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Farming is the oldest profession on earth
SOTONYE ANGA The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played wi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA He said it was the kind of book you made your own.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY No hay nada como respirar hondo después de reírte tanto. Nada en el mundo como el dolor de estóma...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ...
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R. TURNBULL We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away.
R. SOUTHWELL The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.
R. POCOCK When God created the first human beings, God led them around the garden of Eden and said: Look at my...
R. KOHELET Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach fill...
R. VENNING Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines.
R. STEVENS 'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's...
R. KELLY If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
R. KELLY In my community, mental health isn't taken seriously enough. Therapy is replaced by prayer. Tears ar...
FRIDA R. I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in...
R. KELLY People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you withou...
R. KELLY My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around ...
R. KELLY When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago ...
R. KELLY They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.
R. KELLY Day drinking with a broken heart
is like selling loose Cuban cigars like Newports,
tryna...
FRIDA R. The only good ideas are the ones I can take credit for.
R. STEVENS Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that'...
R. STEVENS Wasting sarcasm is a sin.
R. STEVENS Why is it OK to love without a reason, but anger requires justification?
R. STEVENS I'm NOT short. I prefer to think there is simply more space above my head for word balloons full of ...
R. STEVENS Ever heard Victoria's REAL secret? Too much support hurts.
R. STEVENS Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the pi...
R. KELLY I wouldn't mind dying - it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
R. GEIS I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
R. KELLY I believe the work of art should change the existing visual, intellectual and aesthetical sense and ...
GOPAKUMAR R I am not a traditionalist, questioning the social condition of the society. To achieve this, I use V...
GOPAKUMAR R 'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it&#...
R. KELLY 'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I...
R. KELLY I have always been infatuated with country music.
R. KELLY I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always l...
R. KELLY Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you m...
R ZACCHARIAS As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. I...
R. KELLY Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've ...
R. KELLY I slept and I dreamed that life was all joy. I woke and saw that life was but service. I served and ...
R. TAGORE To be handed a lot of money is to be handed a glass sword, blade first.
R. BACH Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
R. GEIS & Whenn i Scratch my Nailss Down hisss baqqqq ; yourrr gonnahhh feel it.
JEANETTE R. Be a froot loop in a world full of cheerios :)
SANDRA R We are relentless.
We don't compromise grace.
But when we hunt, we're vicious.
FRIDA R. The person who's made for you is gonna love the good, bad, and ugly parts of you.
FRIDA R. She falls back like a dead weight. The red hair loosens from the hair band and spreads in the colorf...
PAT R Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt li...
R. KELLY I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky.
R. KELLY For every quote, there is one that challenges it.
R. ALISTAIR