Quotes by Authors - Page 164

Love I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston
To serve thy generation this thy fate: "Written in water " swiftly fades thy name But he who loves his kind does first or late A work too great for fame.
Mary Clemmer
We can sometimes love what we do not understand but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
Anna Jameson
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes And men grow better as the world grows old.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The true object of all human life is play.
G.K. Chesterton
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
Don Marquis
Man is that he might have joy.
Joseph Smith
Everything holds its breath except spring. She bursts through as strong as ever.
B.M. Bower
All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
Brenda Ueland
The general rule is that people who enjoy life also enjoy marriage.
Phyllis Battelle
Live all you can it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
Henry James
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images just watching images passing by which I cannot live in make love to possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Anaïs Nin
I love myself when I am laughing.
Zora Neale Hurston
Whether you are talking about education career or service you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.
Barbara Bush
Man is fond of counting his troubles but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.
A. Edward Newton
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
Happiness comes fleetingly now and then To those who have learned to do without it And to them only.
Don Marquis
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.
Charlton Ogburn
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy but never an interested person who was unhappy.
A.C. Benson
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one has to do.
James M. Barrie
It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is rightly more important that he eat than that he philosophize.
W.H. Auden
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
For the rational psychologically healthy man the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
Nathaniel Branden
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
Lytton Strachey
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
Happiness is a mystery like religion and it should never be rationalized.
G.K. Chesterton
They're hangin' Danny Deever in the morning!
Rudyard Kipling
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.
Anonymous
The voice is Jacob's voice but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Anonymous
His hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him.
Anonymous
The hoary beard is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Anonymous
Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Anonymous
Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.
Harold Macmillan
She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
Gertrude Stein
It is well to lie fallow for a while.
Martin F. Tupper
Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice it is merely custom.
Mark Twain
Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Mark Twain
Habit is a great deadener.
Samuel Beckett
Custom is second nature and no less powerful.
Michel Eyquem Montaigne
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
Eliza Cook
Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fanes quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there.
Lydia M. Child
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm
Ambition if it feeds at all does so on the ambition of others.
Susan Sontag
The glory that was Greece.
Edgar Allan Poe
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
T.S Eliot
The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
Alexander Chase
The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
Max Stirner
Great men hallow a whole people and lift up all who live in their time.
Sydney Smith
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
William Henry Hudson
If I am a great man then a good many of the great men of history are frauds.
Bonar Law
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Thomas Fuller
Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.
Herbert Asquith
We are all worms but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
Winston Churchill
He (Winston Churchill) mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen. . . .
Anonymous
Few great men could pass Personnel.
Paul Goodman