Life

No one is happy all his life long.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first .

Life is short, break the rules.

Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly .

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you