sayings and quotes about life

Someone might say of me that I have only made a bouquet of other people's flowers here, having supplied nothing of my own but the thread to bind them. ~Michel de Montaigne Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. ~Gloria Steinem



For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth. ~Hunter S. Thompson



I'm hitting the woods just great, but I'm having a terrible time getting out of them. ~Harry Toscano



The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. ~Esther Dyson



There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. ~Thomas W. Higginson



We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine. ~H.L. Mencken



Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one. ~Lauren Raffo



Laughter is an instant vacation. ~Milton Berle



Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling. ~George Gordon Byron



Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ~Martin H. Fischer



He fed his spirit with the bread of books. ~Edwin Markham



Lap dancing's the ultimate nightmare of man - it's porn that can see you. ~Coupling, "Split," original airdate 23 September 2002, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Steve



Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. ~Author Unknown



One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ~Sidney Howard



The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. ~Anatole France



Not unfortunately the universe is wild - game-flavoured as a hawk's wing. ~B.P. Blood



Yoga is bodily gospel. ~Reaven Fields



The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~Benjamin Franklin



History is a pageant and not a philosophy. ~Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta: The Muse of History