Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Life.

The repository contains 128 quotes in the category “Life.”
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It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

Dennis Wholey

We have tears for when we have nothing else.

Thomas Sowell
1930 —     

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Elbert Hubbard
1856 — 1915

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw
1856 — 1950

When you have solved all mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

Khalil Gibran
1883 — 1931

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Lin Yutang
1895 — 1976

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Martina Navrátilová
1956 —     

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Goethe
1749 — 1832

Live for today; tomorrow is too late.

Martial
1040? — 103?

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana
1863 — 1952

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

Christian Furchtegott Gellert
1715 — 1769

For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

Jean Paul Richter
1763 — 1825

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.

John Jensen

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

Quentin Crisp
1908 — 1999

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Lew Brown
1893 — 1958

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

Grantland Rice
1880 — 1954

"Alumnus Football"

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

O. Henry
1862 — 1910

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