pics of quotes about life

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. ~Josh Billings, His Complete Works, 1888



In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. ~Somerset Maugham



Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cynthia Nelms



An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. ~Walter Bagehot



A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. ~Thomas Szaz



If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. ~Thomas Fuller



A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. ~Irish Saying



You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary. ~Paul Johnson, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993



There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. ~Josh Billings



Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. ~Mark Twain



No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers. ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires



Just like yoga, skipping provides exercise for the body, mind, and spirit. ~"Skipper" Kim Corbin, founder of iskip.com



A cloudless plain blue sky is like a flowerless garden. ~Terri Guillemets



Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage. ~Author Unknown



Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute. ~Edison Haines



We must not be forced to explore the universe in search of a new home because we have made the Earth inhospitable, even uninhabitable. For if we do not solve the environmental and related social problems that beset us on Earth - pollution, toxic contamination, resource depletion, prejudice, poverty, hunger - those problems will surely accompany us to other worlds. ~Donald G. Kaufman and Cecilia M. Franz, Biosphere 2000: Protecting Our Global Environment, 1996



History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed. ~Louis Fischer



We must be our own before we can be another's. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell



Modern man is just ancient man... with way better electronics. ~Author unknown, "A Short History of Breakfast," from a Jack in the Box tray liner, 2006



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