Life Quotes

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Alexandre Dumas, fils

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.

Joachim du Bellay

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Robert Orben

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Harold S. Kushne

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

Christa McAuliffe

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

William O. Douglas

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)

All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Shakespeare

I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country.

Nathan Hale

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble.

Carl Gustav Jung

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Unknown

Life is too short for traffic.

Dan Bellack

What is life It is the 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

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Mille

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

Christopher Isherwood

When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.

Douglas Lurtan

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butle

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

John Dean

We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Kahlil Gibran

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Max Nordau

We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.

John Claypool

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.

Unknown

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.

Plato