Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luigi Pirandello

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Luigi Pirandello

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

Ludwig van Beethoven

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A confession has to be part of your new life.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Luc de Clapiers

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

Luc de Clapiers

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Luc de Clapiers

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

Louis Nizer

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

Louis Sachar

I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it.After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

Louis Pasteur

In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares.

Louis Pasteur

After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on the surface of the earth and everything that has been a plant and an animal will be destroyed and transformed into a gaseous, volatile and mineral substance.

Louis Pasteur

Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is between those substances that have a plane of symmetry and those that do not. The former belong to the mineral, the latter to the living world.

Louis Pasteur

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.

Lope de Vega

But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.

Lope de Vega

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Lord Chesterfield

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

Lord Chesterfield

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Lord Byron

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Lord Byron

Life is too short for chess.

Lord Byron

As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?

Lord Byron

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

Jim Valvano

I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.

Jim Valvano

Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.

John Connolly

If 'why' was the first and last question, then because I was curious to see what would happen was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.

John Cleese

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'

John Buchan

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

M. Russell Ballard

It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.