“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”
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“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
“The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”
“You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a d--n thing.”
“I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!”
“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
“In married life three is company and two none.”
“Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.”
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”
“Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.”
“The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.”
“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”
“There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.”
“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
“I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”
“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?”
“The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”
“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.”