January 30, 2012

V. S. Naipaul: Argentine political...

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
/V. S. Naipaul/

January 29, 2012

Leon Kass: Is it...

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
/Leon Kass/

January 26, 2012

Rod Taylor: The most...

The most important thing in my life is my work.
/Rod Taylor/

January 25, 2012

Gilda Radner: I wanted...

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems dont rhyme, and some stories dont have a clear begining middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the most of it without knowing whats going to happen next.
/Gilda Radner/

January 22, 2012

Stephen Leacock: Humor may...

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
/Stephen Leacock/

Meir Kahane: Every man...

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
/Meir Kahane/

January 21, 2012

Alan Ladd: I'm the...

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.
/Alan Ladd/

January 19, 2012

Timothy Fuller: Life is...

Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
/Timothy Fuller/

Douglas Adams: He hoped...

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
/Douglas Adams/

Ralph Waldo Emerson: What I...

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

Frank Sinatra: I would...

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
/Frank Sinatra/

January 16, 2012

Theodore Roosevelt: It is...

It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted.
/Theodore Roosevelt/

Robert Herrick: The person...

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
/Robert Herrick/

Audra Foveo-Alba: Star Trek...

Star Trek fans usually know the metaphors of life better than most mainstream poets.
/Audra Foveo-Alba/

January 14, 2012

Smiley Blanton: Love is...

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
/Smiley Blanton/

January 12, 2012

Charles Stuart Calverley: But ah!...

But ah! disasters have their use;<BR>And life might e'en be too sun-shiny.
/Charles Stuart Calverley/

January 11, 2012

Robert Louis Stevenson: What do...

What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility ... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
/Robert Louis Stevenson/

January 10, 2012

Zinedine Zidane: I was...

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.
/Zinedine Zidane/

January 09, 2012

Joseph Campbell: He said...

He said myths and mythology wasn't to give meaning to life but to give us an experience of life, an experience of vitality in being alive.
/Joseph Campbell/

January 08, 2012

January 06, 2012

Mel Brooks: Look, I...

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
/Mel Brooks/

January 05, 2012

Maya Angelou: Life loves...

Life loves the liver of it.
/Maya Angelou/

Elbert Hubbard: Do not...

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
/Elbert Hubbard/

Hedy Lamarr: Jack Kennedy...

Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.
/Hedy Lamarr/

January 03, 2012

David Shakarian: I never...

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.
/David Shakarian/

George Tooker: Painting is...

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
/George Tooker/

Ludwig van Beethoven: What will...

What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the changes of time, and - more's the pity- the fashions of time, only that which is good and true will endure like a rock and no wanton hand will ever venture to defile it. Then, let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.
/Ludwig van Beethoven/

January 02, 2012

George Edward Woodberry: To feel...

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
/George Edward Woodberry/

David Zucker: I believe...

I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.
/David Zucker/

January 01, 2012

Rachel Carson: Those who...

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
/Rachel Carson/