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| 1 | I am in a charming state of confusion | Ada Lovelace | Letter to Charles Babbage (1843) | |
| 2 | the question has not settled as to if madness is the loftiest intelligence | Edgar Allan Poe | Eleonora | |
| 3 | Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | The Cheshire Cat |
| 4 | Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. | Lewis Carroll | Through the Looking-Glass | The White Queen |
| 5 | Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Alice |
| 6 | Curiouser and curiouser! | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Alice |
| 7 | "I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter. | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | The Mad Hatter |
| 9 | I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see? | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Alice |
| 10 | If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | The Cheshire Cat |
| 11 | “Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.” | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | The Gryphon |
| 12 | Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time. | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | The Mad Hatter |
| 13 | It would be so nice if something made sense for a change. | Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland (1951 film) | Alice |
| 14 | No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise. | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | The Mock Turtle |
| 15 | If you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas. | Jeff Eastin | White Collar | Mozzie |
| 16 | Realists don't fear the results of their study. | Fyodor Dostoevsky | A Writer's Diary | |
| 17 | His heart is a suspended lute; As soon as you touch it, it resonates. | Pierre-Jean de Béranger | Le Refus (epigraph in The Fall of the House of Usher) | |
| 18 | The only way to do great work is to love what you do | Steve Jobs | Stanford University Commencement Address (2005) | |
| 19 | Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication | Leonardo da Vinci | Attributed | |
| 20 | The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams | Eleanor Roosevelt | Attributed | |
| 21 | Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower | Steve Jobs | Attributed | |
| 22 | May you live in interesting times. | Chinese Proverb | Attributed (no verified Chinese origin) | |
| 23 | May you find what you are looking for. | Chinese Proverb | Attributed (no verified Chinese origin) | |
| 24 | May you get more than you bargained for. | Chinese Proverb | Attributed (no verified Chinese origin) | |
| 25 | Paranoia is a skill, the secret to longevity. | Jeff Eastin | White Collar | Mozzie |
| 26 | We feel free when we escape, even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire. | Eric Hoffer | The Passionate State of Mind | |
| 27 | There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Attributed | |
| 28 | It's goodbye, but we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. | Jack Kerouac | On the Road | |
| 29 | You’re a collection of impeccable, elaborate masks in orbit of a stunted heart. | Mike Flanagan | The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix) | Verna |
| 30 | The reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. | Albert Einstein | Attributed | |
| 31 | Great Spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weaker minds. | Albert Einstein | Letter to Morris Raphael Cohen (1940) | |
| 32 | Bureaucracy has a vestes interest in creating the chaos in which they exist. | Richard Nixon | Attributed | |
| 33 | language in its highest expression is musical | Mike Flanagan | The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix) | Verna |
| 34 | If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. | Sun Tzu | The Art of War | |
| 35 | A wise man once said, it's fun to do the impossible. | Walt Disney | Attributed | |
| 36 | Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. | Louis de Bernières | Captain Corelli's Mandolin | |
| 37 | Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity. | Jeff Eastin | White Collar | Mozzie |
| 38 | A careless word may kindle strife | Unknown | The Power of Words (poem) | |
| 39 | A cruel word may wreck a life | Unknown | The Power of Words (poem) | |
| 40 | A timely word may lessen stress | Unknown | The Power of Words (poem) | |
| 41 | A loving word may heal and bless | Unknown | The Power of Words (poem) | |
| 42 | A bitter word may hate instill, | T.J. Bach | The Power of Words (poem) | |
| 43 | A brutal word may smite and kill | T.J. Bach | The Power of Words (poem) | |
| 44 | Flame is a fickle mistress. | Jeff Eastin | White Collar | Mozzie |
| 45 | Everything good must one day come to an end. | Jeff Eastin | White Collar | Mozzie |
| 46 | Sacred cows make the best hamburger. | Mark Twain | Attributed | |
| 47 | Without leaps of imagination, you lose the excitement of possibility. | Gloria Steinem | Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions | |
| 48 | Behind every worst-case scenario, there's a worse worst-case scenario. | Jeff Eastin | White Collar | Mozzie |
| 49 | He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. | Confucius | Attributed | |
| 50 | True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. | Socrates | Apology (Plato) | |
| 51 | Fear gives intelligence even to fools. | Unknown | Attributed | |
| 52 | Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. | Bill Nye | Attributed | |
| 53 | Give a man a mask and he'll show you his true face. | Oscar Wilde | Attributed | |
| 54 | Most of us know how to say nothing; few of us know when. | Unknown | Attributed | |
| 55 | The easy way to teach children the value of money is to borrow from them. | Unknown | Attributed | |
| 56 | No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood. | Unknown | Attributed | |
| 57 | Time heals almost everything. | Unknown | Attributed | |
| 58 | Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. | Roald Dahl | The Minpins | |
| 59 | If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. | Harry S. Truman | Attributed | |
| 60 | It is better to try and fail than fail to try. | Unknown | Attributed | |
| 61 | A journey of a thousand li starts with one step. | Laozi | Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64 | |
| 62 | People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. | Simon Sinek | Start with Why | |
| 63 | A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Attributed | |
| 64 | A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. | John A. Shedd | Salt from My Attic | |
| 65 | Never half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing. | Michael Schur | Parks and Recreation | Ron Swanson |
| 66 | Vulgarity is no substitute for wit. | Julian Fellowes | Downton Abbey | Violet Crawley |
| 67 | I think, therefore I am. | René Descartes | Discourse on the Method | |
| 68 | Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. | Martin Luther King Jr. | Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
| 69 | What we think, we become. | Buddha | Dhammapada | |
| 70 | Happiness depends upon ourselves. | Aristotle | Nicomachean Ethics | |
| 71 | He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. | Friedrich Nietzsche | Twilight of the Idols | |
| 72 | The greatest wealth is to live content with little. | Plato | Attributed | |
| 73 | It is not length of life, but depth of life. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Attributed | |
| 74 | Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. | Lao Tzu | Tao Te Ching | |
| 75 | Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. | John Lennon | Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) | |
| 76 | You must be the change you wish to see in the world. | Mahatma Gandhi | Attributed | |
| 77 | Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. | Louis Hector Berlioz | Attributed | |
| 78 | The mind is everything. What you think you become. | Buddha | Dhammapada | |
| 79 | The unexamined life is not worth living. | Socrates | Apology (Plato) | |
| 80 | Live people ignore the strange and unusual, I myself am strange and unusual | Michael McDowell | Beetlejuice (1988) | Lydia Deetz |
| 81 | Veronica you look like hell. Yeh? I just got back | Daniel Waters | Heathers (1989) | Veronica Sawyer |
| 82 | How am I supposed to recover when I don't even understand my disease? | Susanna Kaysen | Girl, Interrupted | Susanna Kaysen |
| 83 | Everything that makes your heart beat faster is beautiful | Chugong | Solo Leveling | Thomas Andre |
| 86 | What is imagination?... It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal. | Ada Lovelace | Letters (1841) | |
| 87 | If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me "poetical science"? | Ada Lovelace | Letters | |
| 88 | I don't wish to be without my brains, tho' they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable. | Ada Lovelace | Letters | |
| 89 | I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc. | Ada Lovelace | Letters | |
| 90 | Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. | Lewis Carroll | Through the Looking-Glass | The White Queen |
| 91 | If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? | Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland (1951 film) | Alice |
| 92 | Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Alice |
| 93 | Curiouser and curiouser! | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Alice |
| 94 | If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does. | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | The Duchess |
| 95 | Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second. | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | The White Rabbit |
| 96 | Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. | Lewis Carroll | Through the Looking-Glass | Tweedledee |
| 97 | I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then. | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Alice |
| 98 | "Where should I go?" - Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | The Cheshire Cat |
| 99 | Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?” The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?” | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | The Cheshire Cat |
| 100 | How long is forever? Sometimes just one second | Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | The White Rabbit |
| 101 | You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are. | Tim Burton | Alice in Wonderland (2010 film) | The Mad Hatter |
| 102 | Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy. | Susanna Kaysen | Girl, Interrupted | Susanna Kaysen |
| 103 | Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? | Susanna Kaysen | Girl, Interrupted | Susanna Kaysen |
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CREATE TABLE quotes (
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
text TEXT NOT NULL,
author TEXT NOT NULL,
source TEXT
, character TEXT);
CREATE INDEX idx_quotes_author ON quotes(author);