Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

Good temper is an estate for life.

William Hazlitt

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

William Hazlitt

The more we do, the more we can do.

William Hazlitt

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

William Hazlitt

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Walter Payton

Tough times go away, tough people do not.

Walter Raleigh

What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.

W. Somerset Maugham

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

W. Somerset Maugham

The tragedy of love is indifference.

W. Somerset Maugham

..as the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life...

W. Somerset Maugham

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

W. Somerset Maugham

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Vladimir Nabokov

Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.

Vladimir Nabokov

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

Vladimir Nabokov

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

Yoko Ono

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bare it in mind. When one understands this settling into single-mindedness well, his affairs will thin out.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.

William Osler

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

William P. Young

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

playing a role in Michael Jackson's life every day.

Tea Leoni

Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.

Our plumbers will snake the pipes. At the Student Life Center, there is a problem because the pipes are smaller than we would like them to be.

Newt Gingrich

Paul Coverdell lived a life that we can all be proud of and look up to,

Paul Azinger

Payne Stewart loved life. He was the life of every party.

Joe Gibbs

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

Jean-Marie Messier

Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.

Miriam Toews

In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.

Diane Kruger

If you're with someone who makes you happy in your personal life, then you're happy with where you're at.

Chris Evans

If you're walking down the street and you smell a scent, it can take you right back to a memorable time in your life, whether it's a moment with an ex-girlfriend or a childhood event.

I gave her life, I can take life away.

If you really want to find a place to get life started, it's Mars, and if you want to get a place to get life to flourish, it's Earth.

Martin Freeman

In my life, the strongest evidence of any fandom is 'Sherlock' - 'Hobbit' fans are positively restrained.