Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Life.

The repository contains 128 quotes in the category “Life.”
Showing quotes 1 through 20 in the category “Life.” Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7.

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

President Abraham Lincoln
1809 — 1865

The gift of life, for all the effort and pain it involves, is too beautiful and precious for us ever to grow tired of it.

Pope John Paul II
1920 — 2005

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die, and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

President Theodore Roosevelt
1858 — 1919

Four-fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would only sit down and keep still.

President Calvin Coolidge
1872 — 1933

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.

President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955

There are two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw
1856 — 1950

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Groucho Marx
1890 — 1977

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

Goethe
1749 — 1832

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Goethe
1749 — 1832

Don’t go around the world saying it owes you something. It owes you nothing. It was here first!

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

Life is far too serious a thing to ever talk seriously about.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

Showing quotes 1 through 20 in the category “Life.” Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7.