Quotes by Authors - Page 146

Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Rose Tremain
Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.
Margaret Miller
If you don't go to people's funerals they won't come to yours.
Anonymous
No matter how rich you become how famous or powerful when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
Michael Pritchard
Being of sound mind I spent every cent I ever had.
Anonymous
He wasn't one who wanted to look back on his life and say "I wish I spent more time in the office."
Anonymous
I do not believe in an afterlife although I am bringing a change of underwear.
Woody Allen
Life doesn't imitate art it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen
I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
I want to die like my grandfather died . . . peacefully in his sleep. Not like the other three people screaming in the car.
Joey Adams
Ninety percent of living is just showing up.
Woody Allen
Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination try to visualize a world without death.
Charlotte Gilman
My mother always said that every time you do a good deed here on Earth you're storing up a treasure in heaven. Which means Mother Teresa's probably got some beachfront property up there and I'm up to a box of Milk Duds and a Pez dispenser.
Robert G. Lee
The other night while lying on a couch I reviewed the high point of my life and fell asleep!
Anonymous
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Harold Macmillan
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
John Jensen
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
For my family to go on living the way they are living now I can't just die. I've got to die accidentally.
Anonymous
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Garrison Keillor
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
William Allen White
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre
People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
Søren Kierkegaard
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.
Jean-Paul Sartre
All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'
John F Kennedy
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
Viktor Frankl
Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F Kennedy
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
Philip Wylie
Liberty as it is conceived by current opinion has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.
Mary McCarthy
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Eric Hoffer
Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century tempered by war disciplined by a hard and bitter peace proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1 000 days nor in the life of this administration nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need - not as a call to battle though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out "rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation"- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself. And so my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country . My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F Kennedy
Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered yet we have this consolation with us that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine
Yes 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind.
Bob Dylan
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Liberty is always unfinished business.
Anonymous
I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.
John F Kennedy
One who has both feet firmly planted in the air.
Anonymous
Oh don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.
Sydney Smith
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.
Saki
I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butler
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
Samuel Butler
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
Henry David Thoreau
Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.
Thomas Fuller
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes
Wear your learning like your watch in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield
Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon
Much learning doth make thee mad.
Anonymous
To lead means to direct and to exact and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin the generality and God (the Word).
Marya Mannes
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
Albert Camus
A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.
Lister Sinclair
With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
John F Kennedy
It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things and himself of anything.
Dean William R. Inge
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
Thomas à Kempis
It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
Robert Lindner
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard