Life Quotes

Life is either a continuous process improvement, or a terminal disease that we will all die from anyways.
Randy J. Hinrichs
She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
William Cobbett
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.
Herman Melville
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star - Dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
Henry David Thoreau
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The secret to life is that there is no secret.
"Swampman" on Quartz
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann von Goethe
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward B. Butle
Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - You are the only one responsible for your own actions.
Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.
Kahlil Gibran
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
It is not doing the things we like to do, But liking the things we have to do That makes life blessed.
Unknown
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
Benjamin Franklin
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.
Jacob Bigelow
I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.
Fitzgerald
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Samuel Johnson
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Cherokee Prove
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338
Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
Tom Lehre
A good book is the precious life - Blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
John Milton
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well To pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?
Lady Flora Hastings, ? Swan Song?
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butle
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
Albert Einstein
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
William Shakespeare
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.
Edwin Conklin
Life is a dead - End street.
Henry Louis Mencken
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet - Scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal - - That is your success.
Henry David Thoreau
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Hellen Kelle
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Leo Tolstoy