famous quotes about life and death

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart. ~W. Macneile Dixon



Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. ~Germaine Greer



He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. ~Arabian Proverb



To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. ~Henri Frederic Amiel



Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ~Thomas A. Edison



If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. ~Mrs. Sarah S.B. Yule credits this quotation to Ralph Waldo Emerson in her Borrowings, 1889



Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. ~Jane Addams, 1910



The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice. ~Henry Knox Sherrill



You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. ~G.K. Chesterton



In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



History knows that it can wait for more evidence and review its older verdicts; it offers an endless series of courts of appeal, and is ever ready to reopen closed cases. ~William Stubbs



It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. ~John Updike



Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ~Jean Cocteau



Cheerleading is more than a sport; it's an attitude. ~Author Unknown



You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. ~Kareem Abdul-Jabbar



There is no wealth but life. ~John Ruskin



Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. ~Austin O'Malley



Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast. ~James Bramston, Man of Taste



The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords. ~Psalms 55:21



You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness - perhaps ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things... ~Walt Whitman, Specimen Days, "Birds - And a Caution" (Thanks, Corinne)