Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.

William Shakespeare

I see a man's life is a tedious one.

William Shakespeare

Ten masts make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell. Thy life's a miracle.

William Shakespeare

The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!

William Shakespeare

Life's uncertain voyage.

William Shakespeare

I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.

Martin Freeman

Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. I wouldn't say musically, though.

Nick Flynn

In life you get one take, and it's perfect.

Luke Mitchell

I got to a stage where tennis was the only thing in my life, and I didn't like that.

Leos Carax

I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life.

Lee Byung-hun

Actors always want to play the villain role at least once in their life.

Aaron Schock

I know that God has a plan for my life.

Aaron Yoo

I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

Aaron Swartz

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

Aaron Sorkin

People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.

Charlotte Bronte

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

Charlotte Bronte

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Helen Burns

Charlotte Bronte

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Charlotte Bronte

Look twice before you leap.

Charlotte Bronte

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Charlotte Bronte

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!

Charlie Chaplin

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Charlie Chaplin

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Charlie Chaplin

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

Charles Dudley Warner

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Lint

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

Charles de Lint

The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

Charles de Lint

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.