Famous Quotes, Quotation and Sayings

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around. ☞ David Lodge,

We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning. ☞ Stacy

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100% mortality rate. ☞ R.D. Laing

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. ☞ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,

Many of us are equal to life’s emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness. ☞ Mignon McLaughlin,

Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. ☞ James Gibbons Huneker

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. ☞ Ogden Nash

I do like a little bit of butter to my bread. ☞ A.A. Milne,

Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. ☞ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare,

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. ☞ Henry Van Dyke

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. ☞ Mignon McLaughlin,

Shall I redirect my life’s journey because down some sideroad might be some trifle I’m entitled to? ☞ Robert Brault

Life is a long lesson in humility. ☞ James M. Barrie

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. ☞ Mignon McLaughlin,

Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings." ☞ From the movie

Reason and justice tell me there’s more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. ☞ Anton Chekhov

To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. ☞ Samuel Butler

Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. ☞ Kathleen Norris

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ☞ Mark Twain

One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him. ☞ Lemony Snicket

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. ☞ José Ortega y Gasset

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. ☞ Peter De Vries,

Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught. ☞ Mignon McLaughlin,

A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure. ☞ Robert Louis Stevenson

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away. ☞ Antonio Porchia,

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man’s existence. ☞ Joseph Wood Krutch

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ☞ Grandma Moses

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer. ☞ Jim Carrey

Life was a damned muddle – a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of – everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side. ☞ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out. ☞ Anton

Chekhov

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life. ☞ Antonio Porchia,

Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction. ☞ Robert Brault

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. ☞ W. Somerset Maugham