Quotes
Quotes about Life
Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.
'Twas his ambition, generous and great A life to life's great end to consecrate.
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
'Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.
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.
The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold; But my outside to behold.
Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends.
