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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  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.  
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.  
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  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.  
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  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  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]
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 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.  
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  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.  
Quintilian  Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies   [read rest of quote]
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.  
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.  
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.  
Zeuxis  Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.