Quotes
Quotes about Life
Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
A tough lesson to learn in life is that not everyone wishes you well.
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.
Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
Let us live then, and be glad While young life's before us After youthful pastime had, After old age had and sad, Earth will slumber over us. [Lat., Gaudeamus igitur, Juvenes dum sumus Post pucundam juventutem. Post molestam senectutem. Nos habetit humus.]
Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to port in safety.
Life's but a span, or a tale, or a word, That in a trice, or suddaine, is rehearsed.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything . . . [is] Forty-two.
Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
