Life Quotes

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.

Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd wastemy life and be a poet. They were right.

Not to sink under being man and wife,But get some color and music out of life?

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

It's my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues.

Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships

Just as in ordinary life a man with a fixed life-goal... will always be superior to others who live aimlessly.

Life doesn't forgive weakness.

The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only the born weakling can look upon this principle as cruel, and if he does so it is merely because he is of a feebler nature and narrower mind; for if such a law did not direct the process of evolution then the higher development of organic life would not be conceivable at all.