funny quotes about love and life

Remember the tea kettle - it is always up to its neck in hot water, yet it still sings! ~Author Unknown



Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. ~Jose Marti, letter, 1890



Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt. ~Fletcher Knebel



I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. ~Louisa May Alcott



Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ~Kahlil Gibran



My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but it's silver when its wet, and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet. ~Shel Silverstein



Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ~Samuel Johnson, "Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor," Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1791



Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. ~David S. Muzzey



A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. ~James Feibleman, Understanding Philosophy, 1973



You are your own judge. The verdict is up to you. ~Astrid Alauda



Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life. ~Giovanni Papini



You can't go through life quitting everything. If you're going to achieve anything, you've got to stick with something. ~From the television show Family Matters



He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. ~Robert Browning



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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ~E.L. Konigsburg



Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none. ~Friedrich Nietzche, Human, All Too Human, 1879



Masha: "I am in mourning for my life."



The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. ~Lloyd Jones The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ~Lord Chesterfield The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ~Lord Chesterfield