Life Quotes

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome"

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"The way of life is not as easy as some people think... like me"

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

"I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes"

William James, Philosopher

"The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life"

William Blake, Poet

"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"The first song is called "London." It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them"

Sting, Musician

"If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster"

David Hume, Philosopher

"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life"

Anatole France, Novelist

"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life"

W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer

"There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

"If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist"

Ellen Terry, Actress

"Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor"

Edgard Varese, Composer

"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy"

Camille Paglia, Author

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"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 then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

"The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot"

Patti Smith, Musician

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