A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John MiltonYou spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Henry FieldingI find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
Martha StewartA man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles DarwinIdle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Arthur RimbaudThere is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
Sydney SmithOne must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedlly, as in life.
Alfred HitchcockI long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against
Damon RunyonAs his last words before being hung 'Such as life.'
Ned KellyIt is a good rule in life never to apologise. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P G WodehouseLife on the edge is short, but the view is great.
AnonymousWhat I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it’s all about life experiences, and I’m very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.
Jensen AcklesAnother life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat
Jean-Antoine Petit-SennClever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
Frank Moore ColbyI really had fun. I want to take the video home to remind me of this match all my life. [on losing to Federer in French Open 2006]
Diego HartfieldLittle did I know that I would be fortunate enough to develop several operating systems in my lifetime; developing one is a rare opportunity for anyone.
Dave CutlerWhat makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
George EliotSixty-three years ago the unemployment figure was 29 percent. Last November it was 28 percent. A rather sad end to one's life.
Harold McMillanSimplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Charles Dudley WarnerI’d go gay for her. She was a fascinating and exotic woman. There was so much to admire about her. She lived life to the full, maybe a little too fully. I want to release the inner Tallulah in me. God knows I can’t get a man - so maybe I should cross over [on Tallulah Bankhead]
Kylie MinogueIt's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life.
Pamela AndersonIn Alzheimer's [disease] the mind dies first: Names, dates, places-the interior scrapbook of an entire life-fade into mists of nonrecognition.
Matt ClarkThere are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love.
(Johnny Depp 'Don Juan de Marco')
Johnny DeppIt is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing
David HumeLife is not always what one wants it to be, but we must make the best of it as it is, nonetheless.
Jennie ChurchillThere is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher MorleyLife loves the liver of it.
Maya AngelouBuying the single on vinyl was a very tangible thing. You weren't only buying a song, you were also buying the artwork and a slice of identity and lifestyle.
Nick ThorpeThe writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.
Julian BarnesMorris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.
David LodgeTrust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda MeirIf those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
Honore De BalzacLife is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice WalkerLife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais NinStatues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
James ThomsonThe witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
Florence KingFar out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea...
[The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy]
Douglas AdamsLiving in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
J B PriestleyThe secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Anthony RobbinsLife is something to do when you can't get to sleep. (Metropolitan Life)
Fran LebowitzDo every act of your life as if it were your last.
Marcus AureliusBen Johnson must still be the fastest human in the world. He served a lifetime sentence in just two years.
Mike LittwinThe great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
Marya MannesA 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 Common sense is calculation applied to life.
Henri-Frederic AmielMadam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Sydney SmithRemember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
Virginia WoolfClever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Emil NoldeHe who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
Victor HugoIt is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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