Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A life is black, whiten it as you will.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

Edward Lear

In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods.

Edmund Wilson

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

Edmund Wilson

If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

Edmund Waller

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

Edmund Waller

Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul, Prove well that on your part this bond is whole, So all we know of what they do above, Is that they happy are, and that they love. Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave, Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have; Well-chosen love is never taught to die, But with our nobler part invades the sky.

Edmund Waller

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

Bill Murray

Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.

Bess Myerson

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

Beryl Bainbridge

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

Bertolt Brecht

What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.

Bertolt Brecht

Life is short and so is money.

Bertolt Brecht

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

War is like love, it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Benjamin Jowett

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

Benjamin Jowett

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

Benjamin Jowett

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Benjamin E. Mays

I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.

Bertrand Russell

I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man and woman who love each other with passion and imagination and tenderness, there is something of inestimable value, to be ignorant of which is a great misfortune to any human being.

Bertrand Russell

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

Bertrand Russell

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Bernard Baruch

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

Carolyn Wells

Actions lie louder than words.

Carre Otis

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.