Life Quotes

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

Helen Merrell Lynd

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan".

What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

W. H. Davies

It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Hubert Humphrey

Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.

Yiddish Prove

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

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

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Thomas Aquinas

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Oscar Wilde

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

Thomas Jefferson

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

Samuel Butle

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

David Mamet