1,004 private quotes tagged life

“In married life three is company and two none.” — Oscar Wilde

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“I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo

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“When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.” — George Carlin

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“Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.” — Samuel Butler

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“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.” — Albert Camus

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“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.” — Henry Ford

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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Life must be lived as play.” — Plato

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“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.” — Francis Bacon

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“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” — Mark Twain

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“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” — Carl Jung

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“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.” — Ayn Rand

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“The lie is a condition of life.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.” — Robert Frost

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“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

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“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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