Quotes About Life

Life and literature is a question of what one thrills to, and further than that no man shall ever go without putting his foot in a turd.

No man weighs his words who has but a moment to live.

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.

Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.

A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.

Man has been lent, not given, to life.

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man." I love that line.

A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.