Life Quotes

William feathe - something that has always puzzled me all my life...
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
W. edwards deming - it is important that an aim never be defined in...
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.
G. H. Hardy
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
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Kahlil Gibran
the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitze
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
Annie Besant
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucious
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
Barbara de angelis - the journey in between what you once were, and...
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
Reginald Blyth
Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.
Amelia Earhart Putnam
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle
A well - Tied tie is the first serious step in life.
Oscar Wilde
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
Johann Von Schille
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.
Henry David Thoreau
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles
I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone de Beauvoi
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
Henry David Thoreau
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.
T. S. Eliot
As an adolescent... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
Charles De Gaulle
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
George Eliot
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.
Eli Khamarov
Life is very important to Americans.
Bob Dole
Life is good, if you like that sort of thing.
Overheard in Palo Alto...
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.
Confucius
Experience a comb life gives you after you lose your hair.
Judith Stern