quotes and sayings about life

A woman is a person who reaches for a chair when she answers the telephone. ~Milton Wright



We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ~Frederick Keonig



If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties. ~Henry Ward Beecher



The desire to reach for the sky runs deep in our human psyche. ~Cesar Pelli



I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they appear to be true views. ~Abraham Lincoln



Billy Crystal: "Yeah, but what's that one thing?"



Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. ~Benjamin Franklin



One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet. ~Odell Shepherd



The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. ~Thomas Carlyle



In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. ~Clifton Fadiman



Most men are more capable of great actions than of good ones. ~Montesquieu, Varietes



In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. ~Aldous Huxley



Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around. ~Helen Peters



There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier)



Golf is the cruelest of sports. Like life, it's unfair. It's a harlot. A trollop. It leads you on. It never lives up to its promises.... It's a boulevard of broken dreams. It plays with men. And runs off with the butcher. ~Jim Murray



Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~Elbert Hubbard



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



No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960