Life and Existence

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.

Do not wait for the last judgement. It comes every day.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Convictions are prisons.

There is no education like adversity.

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy.

 

Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still .entangled with the desire for ownership.

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the Past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the Past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son’s age.

It is the peculiarity of the bore that he is the last person to find himself out.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Fun is like life insurance: The older you get, the more it costs.

My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. J. R. R.

Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.