Life Quotes

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford"

"Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"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"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men"

Mae West, Actress

"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you"

George Matthew Adams, Philosopher

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact"

Henry James, Writer

"Life is a predicament which precedes death"

Henry James, Writer

"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process"

Henry James, Writer

"Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea"

Henry James, Writer

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea"

Henry James, Writer

"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?"

Henry James, Writer

"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land"

Henry James, Writer

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind"

Henry James, Writer

"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life"

Henry James, Writer

"One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left"

Henry James, Writer

"Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved"

Samuel Smiles, Author

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