Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

Evan Esar

The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.

Isabelle Eberhardt

Oh if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so trivial and unimportant at the time! And should we not conclude from such examples that there is no such thing in life as unimportant moments devoid of meaning for the future?

Irving Stone

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

Jack Black

Habit is the strongest thing in life.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.

Peter Greenaway

I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable -- the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to bring them together and enjoy them together in full quantity.

To be happy is, I guess, the most important thing in life.

Pierre de Coubertin

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.

Pope Francis

Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter.

Peter Stormare

To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

Joel Osteen

Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.

Joe Abercrombie

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else

Lisa Kleypas

Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad for you?" "Of course," Adam replied. "All truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you - and they are even better when done to excess.

Monica Crowley

Best things in life are free, and money can't buy you love.

Peter Kreeft

The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself.

Phyllis Bottome

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

Q'orianka Kilcher

Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.

Haruki Murakami

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

Haruki Murakami

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

John McAfee

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

John Lennon

The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees; I want money.

Jodie Foster

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

Julie Christie

I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.

Leila Aboulela

The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous would give His servants without being petitioned, without waiting to be asked.

Josh Billings

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

Karl Lagerfeld

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

Karl Lagerfeld

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

Mary Hart

I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.

Paul Rudd

Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.

Julia Quinn

There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.