Life
Theodore Roosevelt on Criticism
“It’s not the critic that counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.”
Arthur C. Clarke on Intelligence
“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on Faults
“We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.”
Alfred Hitchcock on Media
“Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.”
Charles M. Crowe on Easter
“Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.”
Robert Frost on Life
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
Danny Kaye on Life
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”
Erma Bombeck on Life
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me”.
Anatole France on Life
“The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.”
Mark Twain on Desire
“A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.”
John Ruskin Wisdom Quote
“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.”
Edith Wharton on Happiness
“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.”
Marie Curie on Understanding
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Otto von Bismarck Cynical Quote
“When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of putting it into practice.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg on Belief
“First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again – and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.”
Henry Van Dyke on Death
“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.“
Horace Walpole on Life
“Life is a comedy for those who think… and a tragedy for those who feel.”
Serbian Proverb on Humility
“Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.”
Robert Byrne on Life
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
William Goldman on Life
“Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.”
Robertson Davies on Books
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
Helen Rowland on Life
“The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.”
King Solomon on Value
“Good people are remembered long after they are gone, but the wicked are soon forgotten.”
Rodney Dangerfield on Marriage
“I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.”
Ian Fleming on Time
“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.”