Some of My Favorite Quotes

 

For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night, In the stillness, in the autumn moonbeams, his face was inclined toward me, And his arm lay lightly around my breast—and that night I was happy.
- Walt Whitman, from When I Heard at the Close of the Day

 

I don’t give ‘em hell, I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.
- Harry S. Truman

 

I contend we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen F. Roberts

 

You laugh at me because I am different, but I laugh at you because you are all the same.
- John Davis

 

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
- Edgar Allan Poe

 

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein

 

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
-Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter books

 

Here’s the thing about rights. They’re not supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.
-Rachel Maddow

 

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
-Morticia Addams, The Addams Family