true quotes about love and life

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ~Oscar Wilde



She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of plain good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, about the character Mag Wildwood



Every moment of pleasure in life has to be purchased by an equal moment of pain. ~Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Up the Long Ladder," Danilo O'Dell



My heaviness comes from the heights. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. ~Author Unknown



My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied. ~Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band



Time! the corrector when our judgments err. ~Lord Byron



It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. ~Tom Brokaw



Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. ~George Claude Lorimer



God has entrusted me with myself. ~Epictetus



I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. ~Lily Tomlin



In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death - even vegetarians. ~Mr. Spock, Star Trek, "Wolf in the Fold"



Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece. ~Author Unknown



What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. ~Crowfoot, 1890, as quoted in Catch the Whisper of the Wind compiled by Cheewa James



Love is nothing in tennis, but in life it's everything. ~Author Unknown



Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. ~Katherine Mansfield



The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. ~Leon Edel



I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base. ~Ken Harrelson



Angels are messengers, but sometimes we misunderstand their language. ~Linda Solegato