Quotes About Life

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.

Call no man happy before he dies.

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.

Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.

Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.

My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life because one day I'm not going to be as agile as I am now.

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.

Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.