George Gordon Byron: Death, so...

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
/George Gordon Byron/

Cole Younger: I am...

I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise.
/Cole Younger/

W. Edward Brown: The artist...

The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life.
/W. Edward Brown/

Ogden Nash: Certainly there...

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?
/Ogden Nash/

Adrienne Rich: Life on...

Life on the planet is born of woman.
/Adrienne Rich/

Miguel De Unamuno: Life is...

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
/Miguel De Unamuno/

Denis Waitley: The winners...

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
/Denis Waitley/

Milovan Djilas: Normal life...

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.
/Milovan Djilas/

Stephen Leacock: But the...

But the deep background that lies behind and beyond what we call humor is revealed only to the few who, by instinct or by effort, have given thought to it. The world's humor, in its best and greatest sense, is perhaps the highest product of our civilization. Its basis lies in the deeper contrasts offered by life itself: the strange incongruity between our aspiration and our achievement, the eager and fretful anxieties of today that fade into nothingness tomorrow, the burning pain and the sharp sorrow that are softened in the gentle retrospect of time, till as we look back upon the course that has been traversed, we pass in view the panorama of our lives, as people in old age may recall, with mingled tears and smiles, the angry quarrels of their childhood. And here, in its larger aspect, humor is blended with pathos till the two are one, and represent, as they have in every age, the mingled heritage of tears and laughter that is our lot on earth.
/Stephen Leacock/

O. Henry: Life is...

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
/O. Henry/

Nick Lampson: We were...

We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents.
/Nick Lampson/

Frederick Sanger: It was...

It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.
/Frederick Sanger/

Stefan Kanfer: Sorrows cannot...

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
/Stefan Kanfer/

Paul A. Volcker: What's the...

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
/Paul A. Volcker/

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Where was...

Where was it I read about a man who's been sentenced to die, saying or thinking, the hour before his death, that even if he had to live somewhere high up on a rock, and in such a tiny area that he could only stand on it, with all around precipices, an ocean, an endless murk, endless solitude and endless storms--and had to stand there, on those two feet of space, all his life, for a thousand years, eternity--that it would be better to live like that,than to die so very soon! If only he could live, live, and live! Never mind what that life was like! As long as he could live!...What truth there is in that! Lord, what truth!
/Fyodor Dostoyevsky/