Life Quotes

Pope pius xi - it violates right order whenever capital so...
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
Charles Roberts Buxton
Pearl bailey - sometimes i would rather that people take away...
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.
John Harold
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
Kahlil Gibran
What is life? It is a 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
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.
Ken Keyes
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Harry emerson fosdick - no horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. no...
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.
Percy B. Shelley
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
Charles Scribner, Jr.
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Danish prove
Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life.
Micron
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.
Endicott Peabody
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Sir Laurence Olivie
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
Carolyn Heilbrun
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
Bill Vaughan
The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.
Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology".
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
Sir Walter Raleigh
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
Montesquieu
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Thomas Mann
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
William Osle
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
Andre Malraux
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.
Mark Twain
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
George Santayana
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
Henry David Thoreau
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.
George Gordon Byron
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
Simone Weil
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell
Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world and whoever resues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.
The Talmud