1,004 private quotes tagged life

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

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

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“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” — Oscar Wilde

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“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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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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“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” — Oscar Wilde

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“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.” — Maya Angelou

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

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“Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.” — Tennessee Williams

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“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.” — Steve Jobs

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“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” — Khalil Gibran

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“The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” — Lord Byron

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“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” — T. S. Eliot

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“There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.” — John F. Kennedy

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“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.” — Oscar Wilde

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“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.” — Muhammad Ali

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“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.” — Benjamin Franklin

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