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Life is with such all beer and skittles. They are not difficult to please About their victuals. - Charles Stuart Calverley, Contentment Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. - Joseph Campbell (2) I am convinced that there is no man that knows life well, and remembers all the incidents of his past experience who would accept it again; we are certainly here to punish precedent sins. - Thomas Campbell Heaven gives our years of fading strength Indemnifying fleetness; And those of Youth a seeming length, Proportioned to their sweetness. - Thomas Campbell, A Thought Suggested by the New Year Life is a sum of all your choices. - Albert Camus Life is absurd. - Albert Camus Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. - Truman Capote No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. - Thomas Carlyle Think of "living"! Thy life, wert thou the "pitifullest of all the sons of earth," is no idle dream, but a solemn reality. It is thy own; it is all thou hast to front eternity with. Work, then, even as He has done, and does, "like a star, unhasting, yet unresting. - Thomas Carlyle A well-written life is almost as rare as well-spent one. - Thomas Carlyle, Essays--Jean Paul Friedrich Richter There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of sort, rhymed or unrhymed. - Thomas Carlyle, Essays--Memoirs on the Life of Scott One life;--a little gleam of Time between two Eternities. - Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship--The Hero as a Man of Letters How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all. - Alice Cary, Life's Mysteries One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote He who lives well is the best preacher. [Lat., Bien predica quien bien vive.] - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (VI, 19) Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy. - Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here? - Edwin Hubbell Chapin However, while I crawl upon this planet I think myself obliged to do what good I can in my narrow domestic sphere, to all my fellow-creatures, and to wish them all the good I cannot do. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, in a letter to the Bishop of Waterford When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry and bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality; and I look on what has passed as one of those wild dreams which opium occasions, and I by no means wish to repeat the nauseous dose for the sake of the fugitive illusion. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Life itself is the proper binge. - Julia Child One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. - Michael Cibenko Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) The life given us by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. [Lat., Brevis a natura nobis vita data est; at memoria bene reditae vitae sempiterna.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Philippicoe (XIV, 12) Displaying page 5 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
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