Famous Sayings

It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
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Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.
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Life is just a phase you're going through...you'll get over it.
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde
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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov
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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. - William James
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If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. - John Atkinson
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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack. - Marcus Aurelius Antonius
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. - Francis Bacon
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin
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An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived. - Herbert Samuel
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat. - Lilly Tomlin
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For most men life is a search for the proper manilla envelope in which to get themselves filed. - Clifton Fadiman
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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. - Brendan Gill
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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first. - Benjamin Franklin
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No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you. - Sholom Aleichem
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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. - Sholom Aleichem
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. - Carson McCullers
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. - Arthur Schopenhauer
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It is not true that life is one damn thing after another, it is the same damn thing over and over. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The secret of a long life is knowing when it's time to go. - Michelle Shocked
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A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death. - Pier Paolo Pasolini
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There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them. - Lawrence Welk
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You know, it's a long world. - Lawrence Welk
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand other things well. - Sir Hugh Walpole
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It isn't life that matters, it's the courage you bring to it. - Sir Hugh Walpole
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly -- because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them. - Michael Caine
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I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now. - Rob Lowe
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Everything that I did in life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for. - Earl Warren
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Life is like a game of poker: If you don't put any in the pot, there won't be any to take out. - Moms Mabley
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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside. - William Morris
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We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity. - Dorothy Height
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money. When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life. I'd like to thank you for giving me a part of your life tonight. - Wayne Newton
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Life is short; live it up. - Nikita Khrushchev
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Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. - Marcus Aurelius Antonius
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius Antonius
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana
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His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! - William Shakespeare
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It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit. - Bill Gates
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. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set. - Benjamin E. Mays
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Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done. - Benjamin E. Mays
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We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle. - Benjamin E. Mays
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant! - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Everyone lives by selling something. - Robert Louis Stevenson
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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun. - Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. - Robert Louis Stevenson
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. - Robert Louis Stevenson
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To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. - Robert Louis Stevenson
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. - Will Rogers
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. - Mark Twain
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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain
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There is just one life for each of us: our own. - Euripides
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Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike. (The Iliad) - Homer
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Born to be wild - live to outgrow it. - Lao Tzu
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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try the world is beyond the winning. - Lao Tzu
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. - Lao Tzu
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. - Lao Tzu
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim - Bertrand Russell
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim - Bertrand Russell
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I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right. - Tracy Chapman
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell
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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel. - Horace Walpole
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. - Horace Walpole
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. - Truman Capote
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. - Jimmy Carter
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Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out. - W. C. Handy
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My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way. - Hilary Duff
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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. - Arthur Ashe
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. - Agnes De Mille
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[I]nstead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey[.] - From The Importance of Living (1937) - Lin Yutang
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The cost of living's going up, and the chance of livin's going down. - Flip Wilson
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER." - Willliam S. Burroughs
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You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon'. - Chris Rock
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Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. - Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
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I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in. - David Niven
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I figure I had no business being here this long anyway, so what do you care how old I am? I've been on borrowed time for years. You know my old saying: live it up, the meter's running. I've always said that if you don't have fun while you're here, then it's your fault. You only get to do this once. - Harry Caray
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I want to keep going till I drop. - Nelson Eddy
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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. - Ayn Rand
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Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all. - Arthur Balfour
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We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there. - Gary Oldman
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If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. - Lin Yutang
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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. - Sean O'Casey
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By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well. - Eleanor Marx

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. - Erma Bombeck
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God heals and the doctor takes the fee. - Benjamin Franklin
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Why, Madam, do you know there are upward of thirty yards of bowels squeezed underneath that girdle of your daughter's? Go home and cut it; let Nature have fair play, and you will have no need of my advice. - John Abernethy
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After two days in hospital I took a turn for the nurse. - W.C. Fields
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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. - Steve Martin
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My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn’t afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays. - Joey Bishop

A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice. - Bill Cosby
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Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut. - Daniel Greenberg
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In those days he was wiser than he is now--he used frequently to take my advice. - Sir Winston Churchill
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. - Seneca
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. - Josh Billings
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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. - François de La Rochefoucauld
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. - Francis Bacon
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He that won't be counselled can't be helped. - Benjamin Franklin
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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. - Aeschylus
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer. - Francis Bacon
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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say. - Jawaharlal Nehru
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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. - Proverb
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. - Oscar Wilde
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Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. - Lord Chesterfield
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Advice: the smallest current coin. - Ambrose Bierce
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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. - William Rounseville Alger
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It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self. - François de La Rochefoucauld
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. - Ben Jonson
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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. - Aesop
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Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise. - Lord Chesterfield
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Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening. - Oscar Wilde
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Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. - Benjamin Franklin
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. - Sir Arthur Helps
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Friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own. - William Lamb Melbourne
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I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve. - William Shakespeare
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong
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I always advise people never to give advice. - P. G. Wodehouse
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks
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Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult. - Edmund Gwenn
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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. - Will Rogers
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Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty. - Steve Martin
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What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. - Steve Martin
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Of course, it's very easy to be witty tomorrow, after you get a chance to do some research and rehearse your ad libs. - Joey Adams
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. - Peter Ustinov
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Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to be willing to throw it all away. - John Belushi
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At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted... - Eric Idle
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