Life Quotes

Marcel marceau - i have spent more than half a lifetime trying to...
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
Lewis Grizzard
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
Paul Tournie
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life - Long attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
Samuel butler, the way of all flesh - he has spent his life best who has enjoyed it...
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
Christopher Morley
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.
Theodore Roosevelt
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.
John Harold
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
Voltaire
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
Leo Tolstoy
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
Christopher Morley
Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.
Yiddish Prove
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Ellen Glasgow
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
Ernest Hemingway
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
Erik H. Erikson
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Paul Gauguin
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
I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins
Make your life a mission - Not an intermission.
Arnold Glasgow
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel Kant
While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
Seneca
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Traditional Indian Saying
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
Bertrand Russell
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switze
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...
Chief Seattle
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
John Constable
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 an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins