Quotes on Life

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.