Quotes About Life

When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

Get money - but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. The wise man gives his labor and ability. The fool gives his life.

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

Man must endure his going hence.

Ikebana is meant to mimic life in the way it develops; it shouldn't look like it's under the control of man.

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

There was a man once who said that mothers carry the key of our souls with them all our lives. But you threw mine away

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.

Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I'm not the happiest man on earth I'm surely the luckiest man alive.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

A man must take the fat with the lean.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all — he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability--did he win?

I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many -- myself and humanity in flux.

What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.