Life

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it .

Experience comes from bad judgment.

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen .

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them .

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

Don't dream your life, but live your dream

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.