Life Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 9



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

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Tom Lehrer

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.
Proverb

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others
Helen Keller

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
Henry J. Tillman

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein

It’s not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.
Roger Dawson

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Seneca

Life is a bed of water filling from many springs and we seem not to know when one gushing flow will oe’r flood the banks only to be succeeded by a drought.
Anonymous

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
William Cowper

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
Charles Feidelson

Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
Anonymous

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
Graffiti

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

There is no Undo in real-life.
Marcos Figueira

Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
Swedish Proverb

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Anonymous

Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another.
Anonymous

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.
Oliver Goldsmith

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus

In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.
Diego Marchi

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand

Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.
Joseph Conrad

Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We’re just warming up.
Chuck Palahniuk

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore

Time is equal to life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
Alan Lakein

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence S. Darrow

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