Life Quotes

Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar, Nemean Odes
Steven weinberg - the effort to understand the universe is one of...
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.
Dorothy Thompson
Woody allen - my one regret in life is that i am not someone...
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
Lord byron, don juan - man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best...
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
David Searls
A man has to have a code, a way of life to live by.
John Wayne, the book "My Life With the Duke".
Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.
Juvenal, Satires
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Carl Jung
Live a life as a monument to your soul.
Ayn Rand
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.
Jim Fiebig
The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan".
Art washes away the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
Laurence Sterne
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.
Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.
Calvin Trillin
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
Life - The way it really is - Is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
Joseph Brodsky
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
Steven Wright
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.
Lou Reed
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya Angelou
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Seneca
There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.
Lewis Black, "Black on Broadway" (2004)
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
Randolph Bourne
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
Frank Herbert, Chenoeh: "Coversations with Leto II".
What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.
Searamouche
There must be more to life than having everything.
Maurice Sendak
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
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
Eric Hoffe