Life Quotes and Quotations

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - - Samuel Butler

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear: Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles life. - Edward Young

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
- Josh Billings

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
- Socrates

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo

For this I see, that we, all we that live,
Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.
- Sophocles

Every noble life leaves its fibre interwoven forever in the work of the world.
- John Ruskin

We are here to add what we can to, not what we can get from, life.
- Sir William Osler

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

(From Motivating Calendars 2008)

Life is a building. It rises slowly, day by day, through the years. Every new lesson we learn lays a block on the edifice which is rising silently within us. Every experience, every touch of another life on ours, every influence that impresses us, every book we read, every conversation we have, every act of our commonest days adds to the invisible building. - J. R. Miller

The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates

We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.
- Richard Steele

If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it - Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers!
- Homer Simpson

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick

Life always take on the character of its motive.
- J. G . Holland

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
- Marcus Aurelius

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound. - Hermen Melville

The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends, and the other begins?
- Edgar Alan Poe

It's a very short trip. While alive, live.
- Malcolm Forbes

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, like a dome of many colored glass,
Stains the white radiance of eternity.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard

The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a beer bottle,
they're on TV.
- Homer Simpson

One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
- Josh Billings