Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.
Life is an incurable disease.
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.
There must be more to life than having everything. Judy Newman -Maurice Sendak.
Life itself is the proper binge. -Julia Child.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Real life seems to have no plots.
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the external seductiveness of life.
It's a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
Life isn't all beer and skittles.
Cats and monkeysâmonkeys and catsâall human life is there.