Quotes on Life

James A. Michener	"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
Muhammed Ali	"The man who views the world at 50 the same way he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."
Dave Barry	"There's a fine line between a hobby and mental illness."
John Benfield	"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."
Ingrid Bergman	"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
Yogi Berra	"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."
	"You can observe a lot by watching."
	"When you come to fork in the road, take it."
Paul Boese	"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
Joseph Campbell	"Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends."
Al Capone	"You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun."
George Carlin	"Some people think the glass is half full. Others think it is half empty. I think the glass is too big."
Cervantes	"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye."
Lord Chesterfield	"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."
Winston Churchill	"I am easily satisfied with the best."
Salvador Dali	"So little of what might happen does happen."
Clarance Darrow	"History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history."
Albert Einstein	"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Sam Ewing	"Facts don't disappear just because they're ignored."
	"Trouble usually starts out being fun."
	"To see yourself as others see you, look closely at your driver's license."
	"One mystery of life is why people in a waiting room ask if the empty seat beside you is occupied."
	"Happiness isn't a "buy product"."
	"Pleasing others is easy. All you have to do is listen and nod your head."
	"After all is said and done, more is said than done."
	"Take things as they come - if you can handle them that fast."
	"Middle age is when you're old enough to know better, but still young enough to keep on doing it."
	"Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about."
	"Many retired people live on a fixed income - fix the TV, fix the car, fix the toilet, fix the ..."
	"Old age is always 20 years older than you are."
	"Life is just one foolish thing after another, and love is just two foolish things after each other."
W. C. Fields	"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with."
Gustave Flaubert	"I feel very old sometimes...I carry on and would not like to die before having emptied a few more buckets of shit on the heads of my fellow men."
Sydney J. Harris	"It's perfectly true that you're only young once, but that's hardly a reason for remaining immature indefinitely."
Oliver Wendell Holmes	"Give us the luxuries of life and we will dispense with the necessities."
Jim Horning	"Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be."
Kim Hubbard	"Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book."
	"One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before."
Jean Ingelow	"I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered."
H. Jackson Brown	"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get."
Mick Jagger	"It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back."
Soren Kirkegaard	"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."
Sally Koch	"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us everyday."
Abraham Lincoln	"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
David Lloyd George	"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
Don Marquis	"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
	"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."
W. Somerset Maugham	"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."
John Maynard Keynes	"In the long run ... we are all dead."
H. L. Mencken	"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
H.H. Munro	"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation."
Laurence J. Peter	"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."
Pablo Picasso	"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
Chinese proverb	"In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter."
Will Rogers	"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Kathleen A. Sutton	"When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have."
Dale E. Turner	"We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature."
Mark Twain	"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
Marilyn Vos Savant	"It is my observation that being beaten is often a temporary condition, that giving up is what makes it permanent."