Famous Quotes & Sayings

Socrates

Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

Socrates

The examined life is the only life worth living.

Socrates

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.

Socrates

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death

Socrates

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

Socrates

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

Socrates

Be true to thine own self.

Socrates

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

Michelle Shocked

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Michael Servetus

In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.

Michael Moriarty

Life is best when you are in love.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You know, the thing about life and love is that they are both ever-changing while people seldom are. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What kind of life have you lived little one? Where fair has anything to do with it? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.

John Quincy Adams

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

John Paul Jones

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

John Owen

You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.

John Owen

Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.

John Milton

Imparadis'd in one another's arms.

John Milton

Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

John Milton

It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit.

John Milton

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

John Milton

For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

John Milton

To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

John Milton

By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.

John Milton

Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content, Till sad the breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam, methinks I see him living yet; So well your words his noble virtues praise, That all both judge you to relate them true, And to possess them, honoured Margaret.

John Milton

And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

John Milton

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

John Milton

(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.

Norman Douglas

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

Norman Cousins

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Norman Cousins

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.