Quotes About Life

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?

At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.

Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.

The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.

Remember the coffin where men All must to dust be returning.

All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe.

What is man but a mass of thawing clay?