Life Quotes
Custom is the great guide of human life.David Hume
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.George Bernard Shaw
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.Sir Francis Bacon
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.Immanuel Kant
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.Thornton Wilde
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.Henry Ford
I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.Woody Allen
Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.Harry S Truman
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.George Farquha
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.Barbara DeAngelis
I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.Ludwig van Beethoven
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.Dame Rose Macaulay
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Reading, 1854
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
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.Robert A. Heinlein
The unexamined life is not worth living for man.Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.Horace, Satires
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
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.Herbert Henry Asquith
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love.Sophocles
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
Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.William Lyon Phelps
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.Plato
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.Henri Frdric Amiel
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Life is either a continuous process improvement, or a terminal disease that we will all die from anyways.Randy J. Hinrichs
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.S. I. Hayakawa
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.Melody Beattie
We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form 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.Gaius Petronius
All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.Ralph Waldo Emerson
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.W. Somerset Maugham
May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
