Quotes
Quotes about Life
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; On, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence.
Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.
Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education which I received from my mother.
. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themesâthe values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not fault!
If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himselfâ ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanityâ before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.
I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
. . . solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition . . .
If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt...It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.".
