Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Allen White

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.

William Barclay

The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.

William Arthur Ward

Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.

William Arthur Ward

Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.

William Arthur Ward

The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.

Wilfred Owen

The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder Dealt slow and even Unto the martyr Smiling at heaven: It is the smile Faint as a (waning) myth, Faint, and exceeding small On a boy's murdered mouth.

Wilferd Peterson

The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.

Wilferd Peterson

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Wilferd Peterson

We can make these three dynamic words - "reverence for life" - a part of our lives by becoming aware that God is the source of all life and that we are one with life. "The good person," said Schweitzer, "is the friend of all living things."

Wavy Gravy

I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.

Warren Zevon

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

Warren Zevon

Enjoy every sandwich.

Warren Zevon

All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

Walter Lippmann

Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.

Walter Lippmann

Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty, during which men . . . forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice. . . . They forgot that their rights were founded on their duties. . . . They thought it clever to be cynical, enlightened to be unbelieving, and sensible to be soft.

Walter Lippmann

Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.

Voltaire

Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

Voltaire

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

Voltaire

Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

Voltaire

To enjoy life we must touch much of it lightly.

Voltaire

Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Voltaire

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

Voltaire

You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!

Voltaire

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Voltaire

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Voltaire

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Voltaire

My life is a struggle.

Voltaire

You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

Voltaire

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

Voltaire

Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire

The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

William Ernest Hocking

Art is life, plus caprice.