quotes about life

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. ~Betty Friedan



Hunger makes a thief of any man. ~Pearl S. Buck



He guided the passions of others, because he was master of his own. ~Ebenezer Grant Marsh



For many are called, but few are chosen. ~Matthew 22:14



If you can read this, you're not the president. ~Author Unknown



Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. ~Arthur Koestler



Never miss a good chance to shut up. ~Will Rogers (verification of author per The Estate of Will Rogers, CMG Worldwide)



Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. ~George-Louis de Buffon



Little things console us because little things afflict us. ~Blaise Pascal



Cities are the abyss of the human species. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile



You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~From a headstone in Ireland



The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell. ~Hermann Hagedorn, "The Bomb That Fell on America"



If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job. ~Malcolm S. Forbes



Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. ~Oscar Wilde



No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. ~Margaret Sanger



I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. ~Henry David Thoreau, "Solitude," Walden, 1854



The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of disease. ~Edward Jenner



I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live. ~Louis D. Brandeis



It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ~Mark Twain