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In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
Thomas Carlyle
WriterBritish1795 · 18th century
4.8 · 60 votes · 110 reads
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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.
Wentworth Dillon
PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century
4.3 · 43 votes · 133 reads
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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.
German proverb
German
3.3 · 41 votes · 78 reads
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In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
Pythagoras
MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC
3.3 · 25 votes · 92 reads
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Burton
EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century
4.4 · 53 votes · 37 reads
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
William Hazlitt
EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century
3.7 · 59 votes · 13 reads
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
Samuel Beckett
WriterIrish1906 · 20th century
3.1 · 16 votes · 142 reads
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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there
Anonymous
3.1 · 38 votes · 89 reads
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
John Ruskin
WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century
3.2 · 7 votes · 99 reads
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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century
3.8 · 15 votes · 108 reads
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
Anonymous
3.4 · 52 votes · 93 reads
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
3.7 · 60 votes · 125 reads
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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
David Hume
PhilosopherScottish1711 · 18th century
4.5 · 43 votes · 126 reads
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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived -forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never beco
Sophocles
PoetGreek
5.0 · 6 votes · 195 reads
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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
3.1 · 12 votes · 90 reads
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It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
Joseph Conrad
NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century
3.0 · 24 votes · 74 reads
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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Albert Schweitzer
TheologianGerman-French1875 · 19th century
4.3 · 57 votes · 114 reads
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Anonymous
3.5 · 58 votes · 137 reads
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Pythagoras
MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC
5.0 · 27 votes · 138 reads
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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich Nietzsche
WriterGerman1844 · 19th century
4.9 · 50 votes · 24 reads
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Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century
3.6 · 36 votes · 70 reads
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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
Norman Vincent Peale
AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century
3.7 · 64 votes · 62 reads
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Victor Hugo
PoetFrench1802 · 19th century
4.0 · 59 votes · 36 reads
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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
Sophocles
PoetGreek
3.1 · 9 votes · 125 reads
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century
4.9 · 52 votes · 36 reads
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
WriterIrish1856 · 19th century
3.0 · 45 votes · 52 reads
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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
Mark Twain
WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century
3.3 · 58 votes · 82 reads
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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Sophocles
PoetGreek
4.9 · 9 votes · 57 reads
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how t
Paul Auster
WriterAmerican1947 · 20th century
4.6 · 28 votes · 162 reads
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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.
Anonymous
4.9 · 46 votes · 62 reads
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Life is a dead-end street.
Henry Louis Mencken
JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century
3.2 · 48 votes · 41 reads
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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.
George Bernard Shaw
WriterIrish1856 · 19th century
4.9 · 30 votes · 190 reads
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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
Umberto Eco
NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century
4.0 · 54 votes · 32 reads
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
Ted Turner
BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century
5.0 · 52 votes · 63 reads
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Life is a horizontal fall.
Jean Cocteau
AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century
3.0 · 27 votes · 2 reads
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Norman Vincent Peale
AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century
3.0 · 27 votes · 135 reads
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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.
Thomas Carlyle
WriterBritish1795 · 18th century
4.8 · 25 votes · 189 reads
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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
4.4 · 59 votes · 12 reads
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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.
José Ortega y Gasset
PhilosopherSpanish1883 · 19th century
3.3 · 26 votes · 81 reads
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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
José Ortega y Gasset
PhilosopherSpanish1883 · 19th century
3.0 · 64 votes · 179 reads
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
3.4 · 53 votes · 18 reads
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, a comedy for those who think.
Jean de la Bruyère
French1645 · 17th century
4.0 · 14 votes · 126 reads
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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end
Anonymous
3.5 · 16 votes · 101 reads
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Life is a voyage.
Umberto Eco
NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century
4.8 · 42 votes · 20 reads
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Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter Abelard
TheologianFrench1079 · 11th century
4.6 · 55 votes · 173 reads
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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
Alfred North Whitehead
MathematicianEnglish1861 · 19th century
4.6 · 23 votes · 71 reads
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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
José Ortega y Gasset
PhilosopherSpanish1883 · 19th century
4.7 · 5 votes · 16 reads
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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
4.6 · 31 votes · 144 reads
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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.
Anonymous
4.5 · 56 votes · 104 reads
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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.
Henry Miller
AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century
3.6 · 9 votes · 194 reads
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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
Woodrow T. Wilson
PoliticianAmerican1856 · 19th century
4.2 · 17 votes · 24 reads
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not ''happiness and pleasure'' but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
Anonymous
3.5 · 7 votes · 180 reads
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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Paul Auster
WriterAmerican1947 · 20th century
4.7 · 24 votes · 135 reads
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
Ted Turner
BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century
3.2 · 18 votes · 80 reads
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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Beckett
WriterIrish1906 · 20th century
4.3 · 7 votes · 12 reads
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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.
Anonymous
3.5 · 22 votes · 59 reads
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Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Charles Dickens
NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century
3.6 · 55 votes · 109 reads
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
WriterIrish1856 · 19th century
4.5 · 37 votes · 7 reads
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Sophocles
PoetGreek
5.0 · 22 votes · 24 reads
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Vincent van Gogh
PainterDutch1853 · 19th century
4.1 · 41 votes · 167 reads
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
George Santayana
PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century
3.3 · 28 votes · 111 reads
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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!
Anonymous
3.1 · 17 votes · 130 reads
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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition
Anonymous
3.1 · 64 votes · 181 reads
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell
PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century
3.6 · 24 votes · 115 reads
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Beckett
WriterIrish1906 · 20th century
4.2 · 22 votes · 61 reads
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century
3.6 · 28 votes · 105 reads
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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century
4.8 · 50 votes · 182 reads
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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frédéric Amiel
WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century
3.5 · 54 votes · 36 reads
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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Josh Billings
ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century
4.0 · 24 votes · 128 reads
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Life is short, the art long.
Hippocrates
ScientistGreek-460 · 5th century BC
3.4 · 43 votes · 45 reads
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Beckett
WriterIrish1906 · 20th century
3.1 · 15 votes · 88 reads
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
4.2 · 36 votes · 35 reads
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert Spencer
PhilosopherEnglish1820 · 19th century
4.1 · 14 votes · 79 reads
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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
Arthur Rimbaud
PoetFrench1854 · 19th century
4.5 · 47 votes · 104 reads
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Benjamin Disraeli
PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century
3.0 · 30 votes · 87 reads
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Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.
Anonymous
4.5 · 43 votes · 158 reads
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Life is unfair.
John F. Kennedy
PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century
4.5 · 42 votes · 144 reads
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Life is warfare.
Seneca
PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC
4.2 · 30 votes · 32 reads
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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon
MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century
3.2 · 5 votes · 126 reads
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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
Charles Caleb Colton
AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century
3.2 · 7 votes · 48 reads
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