Life Quotes

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have some power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence

He who hath many friends hath none.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

We make war that we may live in peace.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Middle age is a time of life. That a man first notices in his wife.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

To seek the highest good is to live well.

The world’s a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

I have no regrets. I wouldn’t have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. As a matter of experience, we find that true happiness comes in seeking other things, in the manifold activities of life, in the healthful outgoing of all human powers.

The cure for anything is salt water -- sweat, tears, or the sea.

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Chemistry means the difference between poverty and starvation and abundant life.

The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He can find the quality of happiness in the strain and travail only of achievement and growth. And he is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment which his life-urges demand when his is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

Let us be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow money to do it with.

Our business is not only with eternity but with time, to build up on earth the kingdom of God, to enable man to live worthily and not merely to die in hope.

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business. Each business and industry has to sweep the public misunderstandings and the false notions off its own front walk. Thus will a pathway be cleared for popular appreciation of the important rule of business in our freedom and in our way of life.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart. ’Tis women’s whole existence.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn`t mean the circus has left town.

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all you heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

You cannot live without the lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Life is nothing without friendship.

America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

There is no dignity quite so impressive and no independence quite so important as living within your means.

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.

Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.

Always learn the rules so you can break them properly.

True, we build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.

For Americans, it was love at first sight with the automobile. It is fair to say the Model T revolutionized American life.... The auto gave the working and middle classes a sense of accomplishment. The new, auto-induced sense of freedom ... helped to open up American society in the 1920s.

Dreaming permits each of and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

It is the lot of man to suffer, it is also his fortune to forget.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

What the church should be telling the worker is that the first demand religion makes on him is that he should be a good workman. If he is a carpenter he should be a competent carpenter. Church by all means on Sundays-but what is the use of church if at the very center of life a man defrauds his neighbor and insults God by poor craftsmanship.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

To laugh often and much: To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded.

Commerce is a game of skill, which every man cannot play, which few men can play well. The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune, and so, in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this, and believe in magic, in all parts of life. He knows, that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent, — for every effect a perfect cause, — and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

All life is an experiment.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and is hardly spoken of in parlors without apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

The high prize of life, the crowning glory of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness-whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!).

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view-as well as your own.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.

A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

You may delay, but time will not.

There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that’s holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.

The Bhagavad Gita - that ancient Indian Yogic text - says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

As you cherish the things most worthwhile in your family life, cherish the things most worthwhile in your company.

Things that matter most must never be put at the mercy of those that matter the least.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Life is pain, so live it up while you can.

Live life to the fullest.

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Diplomacy is living in state.

I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers.

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Theories of evolution which, because of the philosophies which inspire them, regard the spirit either as emerging from the forces of living matter, or as a simple epiphenomenon of that matter, are incompatible with the truth about man.

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today, to do our work with more force than ever before.

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

Painting completed my life.

If we couldn't dream, our lives wouldn't mean anything anymore.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives. Even when they're with other people they're in their own little worlds. I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. My family and loved ones are also a great antidote to this. They're incredibly important to me and I count myself a lucky man because of them.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

To be is to do.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Life is either a daring adventure -- or it is nothing.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow, but to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

Martin Luther King Jr. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build an opinion or custom on what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science.

Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.

To live is not to learn, but to apply.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you really want to test his character, give him power.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship', we call it 'concern for commercial viability'.

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

To live without loving is to not really live.

The secret of success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded.

The most substantial people are the most frugal, and make the least show, and live at the least expense.

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

There is only one success-to be able to spend your own life in your own way.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money.

Law students are trained in the case method, and to the lawyer everything in life looks like a case.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

The brick walls are there for a reason. They’re not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how much there is to learn. How little we know about this brain which made social evolution possible, and of the mind. How little we know of the nature and spirit of man and God. We stand now before this inner frontier of ignorance. If we could pass it, we might well discover the meaning of life and understand man's destiny.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Will is the dynamic soul-force.

To live without risk is to risk not living.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Life must be lived as play.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

The punishment suffered by the wise who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of bad men.

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

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

A friend who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is your friend and ally. He’s not a 20-percent traitor.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

Culture is what's left after you have forgotten everything.

Dying serves no purpose so die now.

If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

It is not how old you are but how you are old.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not.

Opinions are like phasers -- everybody ought to have one.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Every business should have its biographer-not after its head is dead but to show that he’s very much alive.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them; acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

As the essence of courage is to stake one’s life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

To me, writing is a horseback ride into heaven and hell and back. I am grateful if I can crawl back alive. I'm grateful for the blood in the basin and the pursuit of integrity on the page, a small price to pay.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; that you indulge the body only as far as is needful for good health.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.

Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die

So dear I love him that with him, all deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life.

So long as I can breathe or I can see, so long lives your love which gives life to me.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.

Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That’s just life in the ghetto, do or die.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed.

Life is not about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.

An unexamined life is not worth living.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways;I to die,and you to live.Which is better?Only God knows

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.

One word frees us all of the weight and pain of life. That word is Love.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Everybody lives by selling something.

Religion is life and lifts you out of yourself. We must believe God is too big to fail.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

The mass of men[women] lead lives of quiet desperation.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

We should show life neither as it is or as it it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Of all the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go any length for it-risk fortune, character, reputation, life itself. and what do you think he has done? He has left it out of his heaven! Prayer takes its place.

Carlyle said "a lie cannot live." It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

...the human being, like the immortals, natually places sexual intercourse far and away above all other joys -- yet he has left it out of his heaven! The very thought of it excites him; opportunity sets him wild; in this state he will risk life, reputation, everything -- even his queer heaven itself -- to make good that opportunity and ride it to the overwhelming climax. From youth to middle age all men and all women prize copulation above all other pleasures combined, yet it actually as I have said: it is not in their heaven; prayer takes its place.

The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other sex sexually, at any time of life.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I could never tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth.

Let us live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.

We spend most of our lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Simplicity is the ultimate form of diversification

The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is left long without proper reward.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Learning trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

The faster we’re carried, the less time we have to spare.

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence more than talents and accomplishments.

What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.

Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there in a car.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

Life immitates art far more than art imitates Life.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

It is only the gods who taste of death. Apollo has passed away, but Hyacinth, whom men say he slew, lives on. Nero and Narcissus are always with us.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for. Nothing ages like happiness.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

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

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

The Constitution of America only guarantees pursuit of happiness-you have to catch up with it yourself. Fortunately, happiness is something that depends not on position but on disposition, and life is what you make it.

No life can be barren which hears the whisper of the wind in the branches, or the voice of the sea as it breaks upon the shore; and no soul can lack happiness looking up to the midnight stars.

The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Live fast, die young, make a pretty corpse.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled.

The real happiness of life is in doing 'karma'.

Another life saved by girl-on-girl action.

Hang up a shingle and condemn the narrowness and greed of Western medicine, you'd make a damn fine living.

Religion has ended another life.

Living in misery sucks marginally less than dying in it.

Key to a long life—exotic women, boring cheese.

There's no such thing! Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're 90, sometimes before we're even born, but it always happens and there's never any dignity in it. I don't care if you can walk, see, wipe your own ass. It's always ugly - always! We can live with dignity - we can't die with it.

We can live with dignity - we can't die with it.

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

My life is just one horror after another.

Don't worry. Many women learn to live with this parasite. My own mother, for example. Forty-five years and she only complains about it now from time to time.

Half the people I save don't deserve a second chance.

I’m ignoring you because you make me sad.

Let the doctors do the doctoring.

Thing is, hope’s for sissies.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself.

You'd be surprised what you can live without.

What's life without the ability to make stupid decisions?

You know how they say, "you can't live without love"? Well, oxygen is even more important.

Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get.

sapere aude

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever.

That no freeman ought to be taken, or imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties, or privileges, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, or deprived of his life, liberty, or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.

ars longa, vita brevis

A house has the character of the man who lives in it.

A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.

Childbirth is a natural event. So are death and earthquakes.

Experience is the best teacher.

He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.

If you would live in health, be old early.

Life is full of endless possibilities.

Life is a bowl of cherries.

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

Life is not what you did. It's what you are doing.

Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code.

There are more important things in life than a little money, and one of them is a lot of money.