Life Quotes

Life is a whole, and good and ill must be accepted together.

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.

In life's steeplechase one must always jump the fences when they come.

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.

Bloodshed, gentlemen, no doubt is lamentable. I have seen some of it--more perhaps than many of those who talk about it with such levity. But there are worse things than bloodshed, even on an extreme scale. . . . The trampling down of law and order which, under the conditions of a civilised state, assure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--all this would be worse than bloodshed.

Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.

Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.

We shall see how the counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger; how the middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to the bull's-eye of disaster.

I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the almost universal view that my political life was at last ended.

I have lived my life in the House of Commons, having served there for 52 out of the last 54 years of this tumultuous and convulsive century. I have indeed seen all the ups and downs of fate and fortune there, but I have never ceased to love and honour the Mother of Parliaments, the model of the legislative assemblies of so many lands.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

Don't take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.

Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.