Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dryden

Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.

John Dryden

Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the' appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

John Dryden

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

John Dryden

Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.

John Dryden

To die is landing on some distant shore.

John Dryden

Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

John Dryden

Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

John Dryden

Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend; The World's an Inn, and Death the journey's end.

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.

John Barrymore

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

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.

M. Russell Ballard

We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

M. Scott Peck

Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others.

M. Scott Peck

Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our lives is sacred, and that we should make of each moment a sacrament. Were we to do this we would think of the entire world as diffused with holiness. Wherever we might be would be a holy place for us, and we would see the holy, even sainthood, in everyone we encounter.