Quotes About Life

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming."

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)

The woman about to become a mother, or with her newborn infant upon her bosom, should be the object of trembling care and sympathy wherever she bears her tender burden or stretches her aching limbs.... God forbid that any member of the profession to which she trusts her life, doubly precious at that eventful period, should hazard it negligently, unadvisedly or selfishly.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.

The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enough of it.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

And if I should live to beThe last leaf upon the treeIn the spring,Let them smile, as I do now,At the old forsaken boughWhere I cling.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

To live is to function. That is all there is in living.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Lloremos. ¡Ah! Lloremos purificantes lágrimas, hasta ver disolverse el odio, la mentira, y lograr algún día -sin los ojos lluviosos- volver a sonreírle a la vida que pasa.

El solo hecho de poseer un hígado y dos riñones ¿no justificaría que nos pasáramos los días aplaudiendo a la vida y a nosotros mismos? ¿Y no basta con abrir los ojos y mirar, para convencerse que la realidad es, en realidad, el más autentico de los milagros?