Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. S. Gilbert

Life is a joke that's just begun.

W. S. Gilbert

Life's a pudding full of plums.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

Rise to the occassion which is life!

Vincent Bugliosi

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

Vincent Bugliosi

Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.

Vincent Price

Be curious about life, and cautious with it!

W. H. Auden

Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.

W. H. Auden

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

W. H. Auden

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

W. H. Auden

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

William Cowper

Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free.

William Cowper

Still ending, and beginning still.

William Cowper

What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?

William Cowper

Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.

William Cowper

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

Wayne Dyer

Just as we're all students throughout life, we're all teachers. In fact, we learn best by offering what we desire for ourselves to as many individuals as we can, as frequently as we can.....Following this line of thinking, it's imperative that we make deliberate effort to increase our inspirational energy, as this will lead us to being both a spiritual learner and teacher simultaneously.

Wayne Dyer

We are not a body with a soul, but a soul with a body. When the body dies the soul returns to the source.

Van Jones

The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence-and eventually falling through that hole ourselves.

Van Morrison

I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.

Ursula Andress

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

Ursula K. Le Guin

True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blonde Hero-really look-and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.

Ursula K. Le Guin

All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?

Ursula K. Le Guin

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

Ursula K. Le Guin

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.

Ursula K. Le Guin

They can send death at once, but life is slower...

U Thant

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Rodney Dangerfield

You can name your own salary in this business. I call mine Fred.

Robertson Davies

Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today, you can't help but feel that life is a terrible complexity of problems. But if you look back a few thousand years, you realize that we have advanced fantastically. If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of mankind.

Robertson Davies

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.