Life Quotes

S. i. hayakawa - in a real sense, people who have read good...
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.
Bailey
Cesare pavese - it is not that the child lives in a world of...
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
Edward Irving Koch
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
Isaac Asimov
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it.
Bob Newhart
For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.
Cathleen Douglas
Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi - Comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
Albert Einstein
When life is kicking others in the teeth, Become a dentist.
Kevin Meyers
Camille paglia - a serious problem in america is the gap between...
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
Clarence Darrow
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.
Crowfoot
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959
Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!
Winnie - The - Pooh by A. A. Milne
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
Jonathan Larson
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts.
John Keats, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov 1817
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang
Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
Arthur Helps
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert Humphrey
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...
Amelia Ba
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life - Style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Hunter S. Thompson
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1988
Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.
M. R. Vincent
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.
Albert Einstein
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Walter Stegne
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.
George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
Simone Weil
Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Marie Curie
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Arnold Toynbee
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John D. Rockefelle
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.
Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.