quotes about life

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown



God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper. ~R. Buckminster Fuller, No More Secondhand God, 1963



You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man. ~Seth Parker



Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. ~Susan B. Anthony



One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. ~Aeschylus



Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. ~Frederick B. Wilcox



Everyone smiles in the same language. ~Author Unknown



I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. ~Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903



Why don't you slip out of those wet clothes and into a dry Martini? ~Robert Benchley



You were born an original. Don't die a copy. ~John Mason



Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. ~Rebecca West



A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Nicotine patches are great. Stick one over each eye and you can't find your cigarettes. ~Author Unknown



If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr. ~Barbara L. Diamond If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison



So what? So plenty! ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Paul Varjak



It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. ~W.T. Ellis



Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic - they are pus. ~Martin H. Fischer



I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his Works respectfully quoted by other learned Authors. ~Benjamin Franklin, "Preface," Poor Richard Improved, wording verified by Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations



Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves. ~H.E. Bates, A Love of Flowers