«How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.»
Funny Quotes
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«Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.» —
«The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.» —
«Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.» —
«I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all.» —
«The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.» —
«Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life. The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902» —
«The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.» —
«Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.» —
«How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young -- or slender.» —
«The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.» —
«If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.» —
«Our acts make or mar us, -- we are the children of our own deeds.» —
«He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed.» —
«I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.» —
«There is no failure except in no longer trying.» —
«Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.» —
«Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.» —
«feminism is for everybody» —
«Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.» —
«It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.» —