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| A. Bronson Alcott | Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking [read rest of quote] |
| A. P. Gouthey | If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy. |
| A. Sachs | Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. |
| A.A. Milne | If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. |
| Aaron Burr | Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best t [read rest of quote] |
| Abbie M. Dale | To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in contro [read rest of quote] |
| Abdul Baha | If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man [read rest of quote] |
| Abigail Adams | We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. |
| Abigail Adams | I begin to think that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action an [read rest of quote] |
| Abigail Van Buren | In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today. |
| Abigail Van Buren | How should they answer? |
| Abraham J. Heschel | The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance. |
| Abraham Lincoln | The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause w [read rest of quote] |
| Abraham Lincoln | Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory. |
| Abraham Lincoln | You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. |
| Abraham Lincoln | I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place [read rest of quote] |
| Abraham Lincoln | It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. |
| Abraham Lincoln | He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. |
| Abraham Lincoln | The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. |
| Abraham Lincoln | We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not [read rest of quote] |
| Abraham Lincoln | I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise. |
| Abraham Lincoln | No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention. |
| Adrienne E. Gusoff | Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies. |
| Adrienne E. Gusoff | Living in a vacuum sucks. |
| Adrienne Gusoff | Living in a vacuum sucks. |
| Agatha Christie | I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and o [read rest of quote] |
| Alan Patrick Herbert | The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word sugge [read rest of quote] |
| Alan Woods | Blame someone else and get on with your life. |
| Albert Einstein | Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. |
| Albert Einstein | "My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that i [read rest of quote] |
| Albert Einstein | The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the pa [read rest of quote] |
| Albert Einstein | Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. |
| Aldous Huxley | Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. |
| Alfred E. Wiggam | A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. |
| Alfred Hitchcock | We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living i [read rest of quote] |
| Anatole France | The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forev [read rest of quote] |
| Andre Gide | Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. |
| Andre Gide | Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. |
| Andrew Brown | Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for l [read rest of quote] |
| Anne Tyler | It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. |
| Anton Chekhov | Man is what he believes. |
| Arthur Ashe | From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. |
| Arthur C. Clarke | The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. |
| Arthur Rubinstein | Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and wha [read rest of quote] |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped. |
| Austin Farrar | "Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindnes [read rest of quote] |
| Benjamin Jowett | You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say. |
| Bertolt Brecht | Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. |
| Bertrand Russell | The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to en [read rest of quote] |
| Bertrand Russell | The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to en [read rest of quote] |
| Bertrand Russell | Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. |
| Bill Watterson, cartoonist | Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that non [read rest of quote] |
| Blaise Pascal | One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of lif [read rest of quote] |
| Brendan Behan | When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, [read rest of quote] |
| Brendan Gill | Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. |
| Brendan Gill | Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. |
| Budd Schulberg | Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on. |
| California Civil Code | Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life. |
| Captain Edmund Blackadder | I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard K [read rest of quote] |
| Carl Jung | I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is s [read rest of quote] |
| Carl Jung | The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. |
| Carol Burnett | Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. |
| Charles Bukowski | Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. [read rest of quote] |
| Charles F. Kettering | My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. |
| Charles Kingsley | We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to ma [read rest of quote] |
| Charles M. Schulz | Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time. |
| Charles M. Schwab | In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I hav [read rest of quote] |
| Charles Manson | You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not belie [read rest of quote] |
| Chief Seattle | There is no death. Only a change of worlds. |
| Christopher Isherwood | Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. |
| Christopher Morley | Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. |
| Christopher Morley | There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. |
| Christopher Morley | A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. |
| Clifton Fadiman | For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. |
| Colette | Total absence of humor renders life impossible. |
| Conte Camillo Benso di Cavour | I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. |
| Corky Siegel | Life is too important to take seriously. |
| Cyril Connolly | As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of l [read rest of quote] |
| Dale Carnegie | If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best wo [read rest of quote] |
| Dame Rose Macaulay | At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. |
| Damon Runyon | I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against. |
| Dan Bellack | Life is too short for traffic. |
| Danny Kaye | Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. |
| Dave Barry | What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. |
| Dave Barry | Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. |
| David McCullough | Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. |
| Dick Werthimer | The purpose of life is to fight maturity. |
| Don DeLillo | Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. |
| Dorothy Day | I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best [read rest of quote] |
| Dorothy Parker |
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can [read rest of quote] |
| Dorothy Parker | The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism. |
| E E Cummings | To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody els [read rest of quote] |
| Earl Warren | Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. |
| Edgar A. Shoaff | Immortality -- a fate worse than death. |
| Edith Sitwell | The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. |
| Edith Wharton | Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope. |
| Edna Ferber | Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to strugg [read rest of quote] |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it is one damn thing over and over. |
| Elbert Hubbard | Life is just one damned thing after another. |
| Elbert Hubbard | Death: To stop sinning suddenly. |
| Elinor Glyn | Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. |
| Eric Hoffer | It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. |
| Eric Hoffer | Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. |
| Eric Sevareid | Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. |
| Ernestine Ulmer | Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. |
| Evelyn Underhill | After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritat [read rest of quote] |
| Fran Lebowitz | I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere. |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it h [read rest of quote] |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. |
| Fred Allen | A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to [read rest of quote] |
| Friedrich Neitzsche | He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze [read rest of quote] |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking |
| G. K. Chesterton | I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I be [read rest of quote] |
| General Omar Bradley | This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours [read rest of quote] |
| George Bernard Shaw | The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man [read rest of quote] |
| George Bernard Shaw | Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which h [read rest of quote] |
| George Bernard Shaw | A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing not [read rest of quote] |
| George Bernard Shaw | It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to ma [read rest of quote] |
| George Bernard Shaw | Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever whe [read rest of quote] |
| George Eliot | The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come t [read rest of quote] |
| George Santayana | There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval |
| George Washington Carver | How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sym [read rest of quote] |
| George Will | Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee m [read rest of quote] |
| Gottfried Reinhardt | Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life. |
| H. Allen Smith | When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which p [read rest of quote] |
| H. L. Mencken | I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. |
| H. L. Mencken | It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. |
| H. L. Mencken | The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief [read rest of quote] |
| H. L. Mencken | It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. |
| H. L. Mencken | Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just afte [read rest of quote] |
| H. L. Mencken | It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were i [read rest of quote] |
| H.P. Lovecraft | ...all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those [read rest of quote] |
| H.S. Thompson | Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure i [read rest of quote] |
| Hagar the Horrible | As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. [read rest of quote] |
| Hagar the Horrible | As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. [read rest of quote] |
| Harold S. Kushner | I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. |
| Helen Rowland | When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. |
| Henry David Thoreau | In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think. |
| Henry David Thoreau | If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like [read rest of quote] |
| Henry David Thoreau | I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his d [read rest of quote] |
| Henry David Thoreau | Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply g [read rest of quote] |
| Henry David Thoreau | I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by con [read rest of quote] |
| Henry David Thoreau | How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. |
| Henry David Thoreau | If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. [read rest of quote] |
| Henry David Thoreau | If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he [read rest of quote] |
| Henry David Thoreau | Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. |
| Henry J. Tillman | Oregano is the spice of life. |
| Henry Louis Mencken | It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. |
| Henry Van Dyke | Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas t [read rest of quote] |
| Herb Caen | I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. |
| Herbert Schiller | For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essen [read rest of quote] |
| Herbert W. Boyer | Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of ex [read rest of quote] |
| Howard Cosell | Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still h [read rest of quote] |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Thing [read rest of quote] |
| I.F. Stone | Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. |
| Isaac Newton | Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all crea [read rest of quote] |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendo [read rest of quote] |
| J.M. Barrie | I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that [read rest of quote] |
| Jackie Mason | I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. |
| James M. Barrie | Life is a long lesson in humility. |
| James Mellon | A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of l [read rest of quote] |
| James Thurber | Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dri [read rest of quote] |
| Jethro Tull | In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him. |
| John Constable | I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, a [read rest of quote] |
| John D. Rockefeller | I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. |
| John D. Rockefeller | I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. |
| John F. Kennedy | A child mis educated is a child lost |
| John Lennon | Life is what happens while you are making other plans. |
| John Lilly | In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. |
| John Updike | Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having rea [read rest of quote] |
| John Updike, Rabbit Redux | You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life. |
| John Wayne | Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. |
| Joseph Stalin | A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. |
| Judith Stern | Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair. |
| Jules Feiffer | Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? |
| Kahlil Gibran | Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. |
| Karl Kraus | What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in ord [read rest of quote] |
| Karl Kraus | How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe wh [read rest of quote] |
| Katherine Hepburn | Life is hard. After all, it kills you. |
| Kathleen Norris | There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life. |
| Leibowitz | Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication. |
| Leo Rosten | I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death. |
| Logan Pearsall Smith | People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. |
| Lord Chesterfield | Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an [read rest of quote] |
| Lord Salisbury | If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocen [read rest of quote] |
| Louisa May Alcott | Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see [read rest of quote] |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. |
| Ludwig Erhard | A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest p [read rest of quote] |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, p [read rest of quote] |
| Luke Rhinehart | Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen. |
| Lyman Beecher | Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. |
| M. C. Escher | He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. |
| M. C. Richards | Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance. |
| Mae West | I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. |
| Mahatma Gandhi | I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. |
| Mahatma Gandhi | There is more to life than increasing its speed. |
| Mahatma Gandhi | In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and decep [read rest of quote] |
| Mahatma Gandhi | There is more to life than increasing its speed |
| Malcom X | Yes, I have cherished my "demagogue" role. I know that societies often have killed the people who ha [read rest of quote] |
| Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore eve [read rest of quote] |
| Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself. |
| Margaret Fuller | Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. |
| Margery Cuyler | I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inn [read rest of quote] |
| Marilyn Monroe | Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So [read rest of quote] |
| Mark Twain | When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. |
| Mark Twain | Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. |
| Mark Twain | When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. |
| Marshall McLuhan | Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools |
| Martin Luther King | Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens li [read rest of quote] |
| Mary S. Calderone | I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are [read rest of quote] |
| Maurice Sendak | There must be more to life than having everything. |
| Miriam Beard | Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent [read rest of quote] |
| Miyamoto Musashi, 1645 | Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. |
| Muhammad Ali | The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. |
| Nancy Astor | The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing. |
| Nancy Kerrigan | Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But i [read rest of quote] |
| Napolean | A leader is a dealer in hope. |
| Nicholas Murray Butler | Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both. |
| Nora Ephron | What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would d [read rest of quote] |
| O. Henry | Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. |
| Og Mandino | Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them a [read rest of quote] |
| Okakura Kakuzo | The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. |
| Oprah Winfrey | My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment [read rest of quote] |
| Oscar Wilde | I love acting. It is so much more real than life. |
| Oscar Wilde | Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. |
| Oscar Wilde | One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputatio [read rest of quote] |
| Oscar Wilde | To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. |
| Oscar Wilde | Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to [read rest of quote] |
| Oscar Wilde | Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. |
| Oscar Wilde | To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. |
| Oscar Wilde | The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties. |
| Oscar Wilde | Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. |
| overheard in Palo Alto... | Life is good, if you like that sort of thing. |
| P. G. Wodehouse | It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and th [read rest of quote] |
| P. G. Wodehouse | Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, [read rest of quote] |
| P.D. James | It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life [read rest of quote] |
| Pablo Picasso | It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. |
| Paul Gauguin | Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. |
| Pearl Buck | Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it. |
| Persian Proverb | One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. |
| Peter De Vries | Life is a zoo in a jungle. |
| Peter McWilliams | In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. [read rest of quote] |
| Petronii Arbitri Satyricon | We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorg [read rest of quote] |
| Plato | The unexamined life is not worth living to a human. |
| Publilius Syrus | As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. |
| Queen Christina of Sweden | It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. |
| Queen Elizabeth | Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. |
| Quentin Crisp | Life was a funny thing that occurred on the way to the grave. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. |
| Richard Bach | It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Unt [read rest of quote] |
| Richard Diran | I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died. |
| Robert Anton Wilson | Belief is the death of intelligence. |
| Rosalind Russell | Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving. |
| Rose Macauley | You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting. |
| Samuel Butler | I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. |
| Samuel Johnson | We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. |
| Samuel Johnson | To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the f [read rest of quote] |
| Simone Weil | Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. |
| Sir Laurence Olivier | I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. |
| Sir Thomas Browne | The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. |
| Socrates | Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued |
| Sophocles | One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. |
| Stephen Leacock | I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. |
| Sun Tzu | War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to surviva [read rest of quote] |
| Swampman | The secret to life is that there is no secret |
| The Book of Joshua 6:21 | They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - men and wo [read rest of quote] |
| Theodore Dreiser | Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thous [read rest of quote] |
| Tom Stoppard | I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it. |
| Truman Capote | Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. |
| Truman Capote | Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. |
| Umberto Eco | The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. |
| Unknown | Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. |
| Unknown | A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong. |
| Unknown | This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received furthe [read rest of quote] |
| Unknown | Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. |
| Unknown | Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. |
| Unknown | I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way o [read rest of quote] |
| Vearncombe | Just like the falling rainbow Just like the stars in the sky Life should never feel small. |
| Voltaire | "Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea [read rest of quote] |
| Voltaire | Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea [read rest of quote] |
| W. Somerset Maugham | Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with i [read rest of quote] |
| Walter Bagehot | The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. |
| Walter Bagehot | The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. |
| Walter Bagehot | The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. |
| Wayne Gretzky | 100% of the shots you don't take don't go in |
| Will Rogers | Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life tryi [read rest of quote] |
| William James | The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his att [read rest of quote] |
| Wilson Mizner | I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. |
| Wilson Mizner | Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. |
| Woodrow Wilson | You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with [read rest of quote] |
| Woody Allen | On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. |
| Woody Allen | Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. |