Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
– P. G. Wodehouse
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
– Nicholas Murray Butler
Bruce Wayne Y'see, my life is really com-PLEX.
– Batman
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
– Woodrow Wilson
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
– D. H. Lawrence
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
– Thomas Jefferson
But if you build your life on dreams it's prudent to recall a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all.
– Don Quixote
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain
– Lois McMaster Bujold
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
– Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.
– Martha Nussbaum
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.
– James Grover Thurber
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
– Albert Camus
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.
– Katherine Mansfield
By not replying to the stupid, you can save so much time in your life!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
– Charles Dickens
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
– Eleanor Marx
Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
– Don DeLillo
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
– Henry James
Celebrations are the juice of life.
– John D. Hofbrauer, Jr.
Challenges are what make life interesting overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
– Joshua J. Marine
Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
– John F. Kennedy
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
– Joan Didion
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
– Johann von Goethe
