Quotes that Everyone Should Read

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. ~ Lou Erickson

Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one? ~ Bob Monkhouse

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ~ Clifton Fadiman

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~ Will Rogers

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~ Danny Kaye

It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. ~ Anonymous

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. ~ Christopher Isherwood

Life is like a game of poker: If you don't put any in the pot, there won't be any to take out. ~ Moms Mabley

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! ~ Anonymous

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Humor Quotes about Life

Life was so much easier when your clothes didn't match and boys had cooties! ~ Anonymous

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~ Truman Capote

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ~ Fran Lebowitz

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well-known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. ~ Fred Allen

A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large. ~ Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby

If you're going to make every game a matter of life or death, you're going to have a lot of problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. ~ Dean Smith

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought. ~ Robert Brault

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific. ~ Jane Wagner

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. ~ Oscar Wilde

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. ~ Bill Cosby

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Words of Wisdom To Live By

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. ~ Thomas Huxley

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving. And we all have some power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. ~ Louisa May Alcott

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us. ~ Karen Armstrong

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. ~ Immanuel Kant

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? ~ Albert Einstein

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Famous Inspirational Words to Live By

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover ~ Mark Twain

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~ Raymond Linquist

What we think, we become. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. ~ The Buddha

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. ~ Chinese proverb

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain. ~ Vivian Greene

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~ Anais Nin

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. ~ Oprah Winfrey

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Great Words to Live By

There is no half singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera singer ~ Joseph Groban

I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was "You'll never find anyone like me again!" I'm thinking, "I should hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. ~ Oscar Wilde

Don't drink and drive - you might hit a bump and spill it. ~ Murphy's Law

Virtue is insufficient temptation. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. ~ Abba Eban

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ~ Aristotle

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. ~ Plato

Alcohol - the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems. ~ Homer Simpson

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. ~ Jim Carrey

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. ~ Tom Lehrer

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him. ~ Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. ~ Woody Allen

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~ Truman Capote

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What is Love in Old Age?

What actually is LOVE?

It is supporting each other in old age! :)

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Quotes About Being Single

Being single isn’t bad. What is bad is giving up hope on finding that someone special. ~ Unknown

I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it. ~ Garry Shandling

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies. ~ Sex and the City

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. ~ Woody Allen

Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free till they find someone just as wild to run with them. ~ Sex and the City

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. ~ Henry David Thoreau

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. ~ Oscar Wilde

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Quotes on State

A state chiefly prospers and thrives through moral rule, well-regulated family life, respect for religion and justice, the moderation and fair imposing of public taxes, the progress of the arts and of trade, the abundant yields of the land – through everything, in fact, which makes the citizens better and happier. – Pope Leo XIII

The state is only that part of the body politic especially concerned with the maintenance of law, the promotion of the common welfare and public order, and the administration of public affair. The state is a part which specializes in the interests of the whole. – J. Martiain

I am the state. – Louis

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