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.

Chris Cagle

Life is short so go on and live it cause the chicks dig it.

Bertolt Brecht

Life is short and so is money.

Aaron Swartz

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

Edward Fitzgerald

I am all for the short and merry life.

William Shakespeare

the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life is to short to be small.

Jane Hirshfield

Life is short. But desire, desire is long.

Dean Koontz

He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.

Bruce Willis

You can not bring back the past. But you certainly can not repeat it. Life is short, even if live to ninety. Live to the fullest - that's how I feel. Appreciate every moment, every hour, every day, because they do not blink of an eye, all over. I am absolutely sure that for most people their death comes as a surprise.

Henry Rollins

Friends come and go but 200lbs is always 200lbs.