“A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.”
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“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
“There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.”
“There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.”
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.”
“The lie is a condition of life.”
“Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.”
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
“Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?”
“Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.”
“There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.”
“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
“Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.”
“All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.”
“When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.”
“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
“Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.”
“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”
“These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.”
“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
“I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.”
“Life is just one damned thing after another.”
“Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.”