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title: "8 Carpe Quotes By Robin Williams"
description: "8 Carpe quotes by Robin Williams. Plus more from Robin Williams and more Carpe sayings from other authors."
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> [I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/i-always-thought-the-idea-of-education-was-to-learn-to-think-for/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a1d/robin-williams-682_carpe_i-always-thought-the-idea-of-education-w_47944.jpg)

> [Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/mr-keating-carpe-diem-sieze-the-day/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef6/robin-williams-682_carpe_mr-keating-carpe-diem-sieze-the-day-6405_640543.jpg)

> [But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/but-poetry-beauty-romance-love-these-are-what-we-stay-alive-for/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bec/robin-williams-682_alive_but-poetry-beauty-romance-love-these-are_1206834.jpg)

> [If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/if-you-listen-real-close-you-can-hear-them-whisper-their-legacy-to/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e7/robin-williams-682_boys_if-you-listen-real-close-you-can-hear-th_1250107.jpg)

> [We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/we-re-not-laughing-at-you-we-re-laughing-near-you/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf5/robin-williams-682_carpe_we-re-not-laughing-at-you-we-re-laughing_1890330.jpg)

> [Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/seize-the-day-because-believe-it-or-not-each-and-every-one-of-us-in/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b5/robin-williams-682_believe_seize-the-day-because-believe-it-or-not_2256291.jpg)

> [We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/we-don-t-read-and-write-poetry-because-it-s-cute-we-read-and-write-3/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

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> [There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/there-s-a-time-for-daring-and-there-s-a-time-for-caution-and-a-wise/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f65/robin-williams-682_carpe_there-s-a-time-for-daring-and-there-s-a_2915664.jpg)

## Other authors on Carpe

## More by Robin Williams

> [On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/on-stage-you-re-free-you-can-say-and-do-things-that-if-you-said-and/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

> [Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/humor-is-a-great-defense-and-an-offense-too-usually-the-recipient-isn/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

> [What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/what-s-wrong-with-death-sir-what-are-we-so-mortally-afraid-of-why-can/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

> [Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/spring-is-nature-s-way-of-saying-let-s-party/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

> [I had sex with a prostitute when I was 21, I was so bad, she gave me a refund.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/i-had-sex-with-a-prostitute-when-i-was-21-i-was-so-bad-she-gave-me-a/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

> [We were talking briefly about cocaine... yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/we-were-talking-briefly-about-cocaine-yeah-anything-that-makes-you/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

> [In America they really do mythologise people when they die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/in-america-they-really-do-mythologise-people-when-they-die/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

> [I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/i-always-thought-the-idea-of-education-was-to-learn-to-think-for/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

> [I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/i-was-a-serious-method-actor-until-i-visited-this-site/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

> [I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/i-m-history-no-i-m-mythology-nah-i-don-t-care-what-i-am-i-m-free/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

> [But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/but-only-in-their-dreams-can-men-be-truly-free-it-was-always-thus-and/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

> [People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/people-say-satire-is-dead-it-s-not-dead-it-s-alive-and-living-in-the/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

> [For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/for-me-comedy-starts-as-a-spew-a-kind-of-explosion-and-then-you/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

> [Carpe per diem - seize the check.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/carpe-per-diem-seize-the-check/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

> [Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It's literally a choice, that's the operative word. If you don't like the language, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-williams/cable-is-not-bound-because-people-pay-for-it-it-s-literally-a-choice/)

[Robin Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-williams/)

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