#attributed

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#love

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. ↗

— Maurice Switzer

#remaining-silent #wisdom #wisdom

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#attributed #female #found #indians #many

A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#maturity

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#disappointment #expectations #misattributed #l-m-montgomery

Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature. ↗

— Emmett F. Fields

#misattributed-to-carl-sagan #religion #attitude

Ego is the world's worst narcotic ↗

— Mekael Shane

#human-nature #humor #spiritual #life

There is no beauty without some strangeness ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#misattributed-to-poe #misquote #beauty

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#conflict #fighting #peace #revenge #trial

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. ↗