Quotes About Life

For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

I know a lot of funny people in a lot of funny places.

Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. It's a cliche and we use it too much but I think for a husband and wife the way to stay close is to do things together and share.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

Destiny may ride with us today, but there is no reason for it to interfere with lunch.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image.

There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.

There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.

The hardest thing about life is that every now and then you have to do things so you have something to tweet about.

If you're not getting older, you're dead.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?