Quotes About Life

A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.

The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.

Every man born of woman has problems.

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

Poor cow, you'll get your dumb man. You'll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand.

The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.

Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

I call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in my estimation - it's a lost art these days.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.