Quotes - Jem Towne (Middletown, CT) Showing 1-30 of 116

#1

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

#2

“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

tags: humor-cats-allergies

4309 likes

#3

“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: reading-secrets

3708 likes

#4

“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

2472 likes

#5

“It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

2351 likes

#6

“The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: eavesdropping, gossip

877 likes

#7

“If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

817 likes

#8

“People don't always get what they deserve in this world.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: deserve, injustice

790 likes

#9

“Sometimes words are not enough.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

735 likes

#10

“If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

tags: bereavement, mourning

719 likes

#11

“They're book addicts.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill

tags: books, humor, reading

713 likes

#12

“Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: misery

680 likes

#13

“It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: boring, rudeness, sympathy

604 likes

#14

“Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: humor, siblings

623 likes

#15

“Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: custom, tradition

569 likes

#16

“I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

556 likes

#17

“The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: bhie, history, library, tears

551 likes

#18

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: reading

13661 likes

#19

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

5813 likes

#20

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

4545 likes

#21

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: writing-advice

4130 likes

#22

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: brotherhood-of-man, people, scout

3679 likes

#23

“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: character, courage, inspirational, moral-courage, perseverance, tenacity

1575 likes

#24

“Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: modern-classic

886 likes

#25

“We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: trust

663 likes

#26

“It's not time to worry yet”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: worry

567 likes

#27

“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

tags: faith, prejudice, reason

500 likes

#28

“Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: atticus-finch, jem, scout

369 likes

#29

“Things are never as bad as they seem.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

310 likes

#30

“Hey Boo.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

206 likes

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