Life Quotes
I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.
Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.
The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them. I'll fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due.
No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.
It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.
A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.
Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.
A man must choose his own way of life, and...it is only by following out one's own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.
How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.
In life's steeplechase one must always jump the fences when they come.
Almost the chief mystery of life is what makes one do things.
One must never be discouraged by defeats in one's youth, but continue to learn throughout one's whole life.
Life is a whole, and good and ill must be accepted together.
A prodigious event had happened. The monotony of toil and of the daily round was suddenly broken. Everything was strange and new. War aroused the primordial instincts of races born of strife. Adventure beckoned to her children. A larger, nobler life seemed to be about to open upon the world. But it was, in fact, only Death.
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