Life and Existence

Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

One does not expect old heads on young shoulders.

One does not expect old heads on young shoulders.

A WOMAN HAS TO LIVE HER LIFE, OR LIVE TO REPENT NOT HAVING LIVED IT.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Remember, we learn nothing by speaking.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

 

It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:

 

Death closes all: but something ere the end,

 

It little profits that an idle king,

 

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,

 

The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

 

The gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.