About Life Quotes

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.

It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

No, by my soul, I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms.

Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.

I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.

Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s.

But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

The greatest pleasure in life is love.

A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.

We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.

Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

I have the motto that says, 'Whatever you see in your closet that you like, pick it and wear it.' It's not just your closet, but just your life. Whatever catches your eye. Pick it.

I want to retreat back to living off the land and just being in nature, experiencing life in the most pure, natural way possible.

There comes a time in your life where you're called to not only reinvent yourself but to rebuild your spirit. It's so relevant today.

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.

The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance of my life. The sun will not rise, or set, without my notice, and thanks.

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.

It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

Study the hurtful patterns of your life. Then don't repeat them.

Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?

The enduring life is the one that begins once we awaken from this world. And it is in that awakening that we realize... It was only a dream

A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.

Our life must have an aim, but we must also ensure that the direction we take is a good one.

If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.

I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.

Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself.