Quotes About Life

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

« Barabas pulled Christopher out of the cage. The man stared up at him. "I died, didn't I? Are you an angel?" "Sure," Barabas said. "Follow me to the Heavenly Shower »

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.

Now, the old man happened to be the Lord.

When man obliterates wilderness, he repudiates the life force, which put him on this planed in a bad way, and in a truly terrifying sense, he is on his own.

There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be.

I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

There are three stages to a man's life. 1. He laughs at Clark Griswold. 2. He sympathizes deeply with Clark Griswold. 3. He laughs at Clark Griswold.

When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.