Quotes
Quotes about Life
Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth-- that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all. For his song is all the joy of life, And we in the mad spring weather, We two have listened till he sang Our hearts and lips together.
There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, And flare up bodily, wings and all.
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.
A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly. Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.
Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
