Life Quotes

Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Jay Leno

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

Benjamin Franklin

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Olive Schreine

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

There is no wealth but life.

John Ruskin

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Helen Kelle

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

Steven Wright

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Nicholas Murray Butle

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

Isaac Asimov

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Albert Einstein

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Fran Lebowitz

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Dr. Robert Schulle

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

succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait.

Teddy Carroll

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

Herb Caen

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor.

The Best of the Best (motion picture)

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Seneca, Epistles

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Albert Camus

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

William Lyon Phelps

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.

Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

Tyron Edwards

Is there life before death.

Graffito

Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Growth is the only evidence of life.

John Henry Newman

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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