Life Quotes

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

William James

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

R. A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

David Russell

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

Kahlil Gibran

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Samuel Butle

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

Johann von Goethe

O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Saint Augustine

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

Grade school is the snooze button on the clock - Radio of life.

John Rogers

I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.

Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Dr. Robert Schulle

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

William O. Douglas

It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine - Tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

Michael Sherme

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Isak Dinesen

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Communist Manifesto

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Carol Burnett

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

Sophocles

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication.

Lord Byron, Don Juan

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Elbert Hubbard

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.

John Keats

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and there is no cause to value one above the other.

H. P. Lovecraft

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

Yukio Mishima

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.

David Grayson

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.

Euripides

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.

Richard Bach

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Buddha

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Lydia Sigourney

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Jack Penn

Life is a lying dream, he only wake Who casts the World aside.

Seami Motokiyo

Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.

Anonymous

Remember this - That there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parke