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Quotes About Life

Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
~ William Cowper
Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.
~ William George Jordan
A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.
~ William Langland
I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.
~ William Petty
Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.
~ William Saroyan
Do all men kill the things they do not love?
~ William Shakespeare
Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.
~ H. Rider Haggard
No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it.
~ Heber J. Grant
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
~ Henry David Thoreau
And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
~ Henry Miller
Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth, Man's resurrection, and the future's bud Shroud in their births.
~ Henry Vaughan
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.
~ Herman Melville
That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.
~ Herman Melville
Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.
~ Homer
Every man's life is a plan of God.
~ Horace Bushnell
I don't think about wealth. I get one thing in my mind, "How can I help people...come on humans...do something, you know. Let's wake up. Man alive...you're half dead. Let's do some living".
~ Jack LaLanne
The bird, the best, the fisch eke in the see,They live in fredome, everich in his kynd.And I a man, and lakkith libertee.
~ James I of Scotland
He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man always thinks about the past before he dies.
~ Jet Black
The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.
~ John Keats
They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.
~ John Muir
The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.
~ John Piper
A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.
~ John Quincy Adams