GIGA THE MOST EXTENSIVE
COLLECTION OF
QUOTATIONS
ON THE INTERNET
Home
Page
GIGA
Quotes
Biographical
Name Index
Chronological
Name Index
Topic
List
Reading
List
Site
Notes
Crossword
Solver
Anagram
Solver
Subanagram
Solver
LexiThink
Game
Anagram
Game
TOPICS:           A    B    C    D    E    F    G    H    I    J    K    L    M    N    O    P    Q    R    S    T    U    V    W    X    Y    Z 
PEOPLE:     #    A    B    C    D    E    F    G    H    I    J    K    L    M    N    O    P    Q    R    S    T    U    V    W    X    Y    Z 

LIFE
 << Prev Page    Displaying page 19 of 26    Next Page >> 
[ Also see Acting Action Adventure Autobiography Biography Birth Birthday Circumstance Cleanliness Compensation Creation Death Decay Destiny Doctrine Energy Events Evolution Existence Experience Failure Fate Graves Growth Health Humanity Immortality Living Man Meaning of Life Men Monuments Mortality Mutability Nature Opportunity Parting Public Society Soul Spirit Success Suicide Taverns Vivacity Women World ]

I worked for a menial's hire,
  Only to learn, dismayed,
    That any wage I had asked of Life,
      Life would have paid.
      - Jessie B. Rittenhouse, My Wage

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
      - Gene Roddenberry

In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life.
      - Theodore Roosevelt,
        at Appomattox Day celebration of the Hamilton Club of Chicago

I must plough my furrow alone.
      - Lord Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery,
        in a speech

This life is but the passage of a day,
  This life is but a pang and all is over;
    But in the life to come which fades not away
      Every love shall abide and every lover.
      - Christina Georgina Rossetti,
        Saints and Angels

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years, but the one with the richest experiences.
      - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents.
      - Bertrand Arthur William Russell

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
      - Bertrand Arthur William Russell

Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too long.
      - Rachel Russell (Lady Russell)

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
      - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.
      - Jonas Salk

The very life which we enjoy is short.
  [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
      - Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus),
        Catilina (I)

No one has become immortal by sloth; nor has any parent prayed that his children should live forever; but rather that they should lead an honorable and upright life.
  [Lat., Ignavia nemo immortalis factus: neque quisquam parens liberis, uti aeterni forent, optavit; magis, uti boni honestique vitam exigerent.]
      - Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus),
        Jugurtha (LXXXV)

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
      - Carl Sandburg

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
      - George Santayana

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
      - George Santayana,
        Soliloquies in England--War Shrines

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
      - Jean-Paul Sartre

Say, what is life? 'Tis to be born,
  A helpless Babe, to greet the light
    With a sharp wail, as if the morn
      Foretold a cloudy noon and night;
        To weep, to sleep, and weep again,
          With sunny smiles between; and then?
      - John Godfrey Saxe, The Story of Life

O God, how lovely still is life!
      - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.
  [Ger., Wir, wir leben! Unser sind die Stunden
    Und der Lebende hat Recht.]
      - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,
        An die Freude (st. 1)

'Tis not the mere stage of life but the part we play thereon that gives the value.
  [Ger., Nicht der Tummelplatz des Lebens--sein Gehalt bestimmt seinen Werth.]
      - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,
        Fiesco (III, 2)

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.
  [Ger., Nicht seine Freundenseite kehrte dir
    Das Leben zu.]
      - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,
        Marie Stuart (II, 3, 136)

Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
  Pass the days of life's short measure,
    From the slow one counsel take,
      But a tool of him ne'er make;
        Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
          Nor the constant one as foe.
      - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,
        Proverbs of Confucius,
        (Bowring's translation)

The May of life blooms once and never again.
  [Ger., Des Lebens Mai bluht einmal und nicht wieder.]
      - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,
        Resignation (st. 2), Opportunity

O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold--
  One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!
      - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,
        Votive Tablets--Expectation and Fulfilment


Displaying page 19 of 26 for this topic:   << Prev  Next >>  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 [19] 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

The GIGA name and the GIGA logo are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
GIGA-USA and GIGA-USA.COM are servicemarks of the domain owner.
Copyright © 1999-2018 John C. Shepard. All Rights Reserved.
Last Revised: 2018 December 13




Support GIGA.  Buy something from Amazon.


Click > HERE < to report errors