Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Russell Lowell

Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?

James Russell Lowell

Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.

James Russell Lowell

Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear; Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.

James Russell Lowell

True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world.

James Russell Lowell

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

James Russell Lowell

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

James Russell Lowell

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

James Russell Lowell

Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

James Russell Lowell

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

James Russell Lowell

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

James Russell Lowell

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

James Goldsmith

None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.

James Harvey Robinson

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

James F. Byrnes

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

Laurence Sterne

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

Laurence Sterne

The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;--and by tightening it, or relaxing it, this way or that, make the thing to be, what it is--great--little--good--bad--indifferent or not indifferent, just as the case happens.

Laurence Sterne

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Laura Hillenbrand

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

Larry Flynt

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.

Liam Payne

The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.

Libba Bray

I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

Libba Bray

She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a pack of lies: God and country. Love your parents. All is fair. And then they’d sent those boys, her brother, off to fight a great monster of a war that maimed and killed and destroyed whatever was inside them. Still they lied, expecting her to mouth the words and play along. Well, she wouldn’t. She knew now that the world was a long way from fair. She knew the monsters were real.

Libba Bray

Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

Libba Bray

A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Human life is beyond comprehension.

Friedrich Schiller

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Friedrich Schiller

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Friedrich Schiller

Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.

Friedrich Schiller

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

Friedrich Schiller

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

Friedrich Schiller

Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe.