A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
– Cicero
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
– P. J. O'Rourke
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
– Albert Einstein
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
– Laurence Sterne
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.
– Benjamin H. Brewster
A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life.
– Norman Cousins
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
– Jackie Robinson
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility...
– Madeleine L'Engle
A life lived only for oneself - is a less lived life.
– Chase LeBlanc
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
– Benjamin Franklin
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
– Rita Mae Brown
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
– George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
– Unknown
A life that is defended by excuses has become comfortable in defeat, it has settled for mediocrity and is destined for failure.
– Oscar Bonga Nomvete
A life which did not touch the life of others is a wasted life!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
– Johann von Goethe
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
– Donald Trump
A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
– Quoted by Benjamin Franklin, Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870
