Life Quotes

Barry switze - some people are born on third base and go through...
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62
Lucius annaeus seneca - no man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who...
Mark twain - all you need in this life is ignorance and...
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
Charles Roberts Buxton
Life is too short to be sensible.
Unknown
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Life is too important to take seriously.
Corky Siegel
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.
Thomas Mann
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
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert Frost
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - So I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
M. Cartmill
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Douglas Adams
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde
Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
Richard Willard Armou
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
Lucius Accius
There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa
Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - - This day - - Is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - - Each moment of this day - - A heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.
Dan Custe
There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
Orson Welles
Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110 effort.
Unknown
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.
Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
George Bernard Shaw
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
Jim Davis
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
Muriel Spark
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN: Or, Life in the Woods
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine Rivarol
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.
Brian Andreas
Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.
Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
Eric Hoffe
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338
Life is good, if you like that sort of thing.
Overheard in Palo Alto...
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Life is as tedious as a twice - Told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare