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Thursday, 21 November 2013

Life Quotes and Sayings 17


Life Quotes (17)

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.  ~Ovid


The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.  ~Heywood Broun


Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.  ~Author Unknown


When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wisest man.  "O, great sage," he says, "tell me the meaning of life."  The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life.  When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, "Do you have any other questions, my son?"  Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, "You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?"  ~Robert Brault, 


Life is a long process of getting tired.  ~Samuel Butler


I really enjoy life I'm just not good at it.  ~Daniel, 

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.  ~Moroccan Proverb


The kaleidoscope of colour which is my life, shows the interesting choices I've made along the way.  ~Antie Koekie,

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.  ~Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum


I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.  ~Robert Brault,


God asks no man whether he will accept life.  That is not the choice.  You must take it.  The only question is how.  ~Henry Ward Beecher


Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.  ~Douglas Adams


Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?  ~George Bernard Shaw


There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.  ~Robert Brault, 

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life.  It goes on.  ~Robert Frost


To whoever invented fantasy, redwood trees, and apple pie for breakfast:  well done.  ~Dr. SunWolf


Life is like a ten-speed bicycle.  Most of us have gears we never use.  ~Charles Schulz


There is no finish line.  ~Nike advertisement


It may be life is only worthwhile at moments.  Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.  ~Sherwood Anderson


I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse.  I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.  ~Ludwig Wittgenstein


The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.  ~Thomas Jefferson


Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.  ~Vita Sackville-West


The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.  ~William Lyon Phelps


Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.  ~James Russell Lowell


In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.  ~Charlie Brown


The world is a grindstone and life is your nose.  ~Fred Allen


Not unfortunately the universe is wild - game-flavoured as a hawk's wing.  ~B.P. Blood


The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.  ~Chinese Proverb


People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle.  But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.  Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize:  a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes.  All is a miracle.  ~Thich Nhat Hanh


You live and learn.  At any rate, you live.  ~Douglas Adams


Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions.  ~Didier D’haese


Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life.  Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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