Life Quotes

“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”

“Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.”

“There is no substitute for hard work.”

“Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.”

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”

“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

“Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.”

“I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.”

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

“For those who practice tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender.”

“Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it.”

“Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.”

“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.”

“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”

“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”

“A place for everything, everything in its place.”

“Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.”

“Lord, lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!”

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?”