Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Charles Kennedy

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

Elizabeth Bowen

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Orson Scott Card

How short life is for fools.

Daniel J. Boorstin

If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction in exploring our little island? How can we persuade ourselves to be exhilarated by our meager knowledge and yet not be discouraged by the ocean vistas?

Thomas Jefferson

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Tom Waits

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

William Shakespeare

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.

C. S. Lewis

You die and you die and then you are beyond death.

Arthur Sullivan

With this car, it's a diesel and probably gives off emissions. I'm not sure if it would pass or not.

Betty Smith

It takes a lot of doing to die.

Jan Stuart

This is a big issue - ultra low sulfur diesel is really easy to contaminate.

William Cullen Bryant

They talk of short-lived pleasures: be it so; pain dies as quickly, and lets her weary the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

John Dryden

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love, but on the stage

Luis Diaz

This is the second time someone dies this year; it's extremely dangerous. People that pay smugglers can expect things like this to happen because the smugglers aren't looking out for people.

Maxwell Anderson

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it