Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. ~Jean De La Bruyère Life is like an onion;  you peel away layer after layer and when you come to the end, you have nothing. ~Yiddish proverb Life may not be beautiful but it is interesting. ~Sir John Robert Seeley Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~Will Rogers A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. ~William Cowper The aim of living is life itself. ~J. W. von Goethe If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living. ~Seneca, Epistles What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? ~George Eliot He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Yiddish proverb What would life be if no man had the courage to attempt anything? ~Vincent Van Gogh Life is one long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler You only live once. And the way I live, once is enough.  ~Frank Sinatra Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.  ~Charles A. Lindberg  When Luck enters, give him a seat! ~Jewish proverb Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.  ~Oprah Winfrey The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.  ~Wilson Mizner Give me, mother, luck at my birth, then throw me if you will on the rubbish heap. ~Bulgarian proverb Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favouring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.  ~John Dewey It would seem that you don't (sic) be having any good luck until you believe there is no such thing as luck in it at all.  ~Irish proverb Success is the best revenge. ~French proverb Success covers a multitude of blunders. ~Bernard Shaw Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets. ~American proverb Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. ~Al Bernstein When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets. ~Irish proverb The best memory is that which forgets nothing but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~Persian proverb You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept. ~Arab proverb If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing. ~Benjamin Franklin You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.  ~Stanislaw J. Lec An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.  ~Philip Dormer Stanhope There is no greater sorrow than to recall a time of happiness when in misery. ~ Dante, Alighieri I think it is all a matter of love : the more you love a memory, the stronger and stronger it is. ~Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. ~Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Domain Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. ~Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Domain What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. ~Portugese proverb A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind. ~Richard Dehmel A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.  ~William Arthur Ward Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. ~Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.  ~Joseph Addison Kindnesses, like grain, increase by sowing. ~Traditional If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. ~Maya Angelou Mistakes are their own instructors. ~Horace Life would be dull without mistakes. ~Oscar Wilde It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming. ~Oscar Wilde If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.  ~Marva N. Collins An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. ~O. A. Battista Only he who does nothing makes a mistake. ~French proverb An error no wider than a hair will lead a hundred miles away from the goal. ~German proverb A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. ~Confucius (551-479 B.C) You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time you must make it. ~Charles Buxton (1823-1871) It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. ~Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GATHER YE ROSE-BUDS Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a-getting The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer: But being spent, the worse, and worst Times, still succeed the former. Then, be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry. ~Robert Herrick (1591-1674) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The time will come when Winter will ask us: What were you doing all the Summer? ~Bohemian proverb Time: that which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. ~Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.  ~Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Keep the eyes open before marriage and half-shut afterward. ~Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) Marriage is a covered dish. ~Swiss proverb A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all. ~Traditional Marriage is a lottery. ~Traditional Marry in haste, repent at leisure. ~Traditional Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can. ~Traditional My son's my son till he gets him a wife, My daughter's my daughter all her life. ~Traditional In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person. ~Wilbert Donald Gough. A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. ~Samuel Butler (1835-1902), The Way of All Flesh--Ch. 75. It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one a failure. ~Herbert Louis Samuel (1870-1963)  Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live. ~Dorothy Parker Fools' names, like fools' faces, Are often seen in public places. ~Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) Revenge is sweet, sweeter than life itself. So say fools.  ~Juvenal (60-130? A.D.) Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.  ~African proverb Fools and madmen speak the truth. ~Traditional One fool makes many. ~Traditional No fool like an old fool. ~Traditional Fools build houses, and wise men buy them. ~Traditional If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to. ~Yiddish proverb A great fortune is a great slavery. ~Seneca A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. ~Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Money is flat and meant to be piled up. ~Scottish proverb Never marry for money, ye'll borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish proverb Of money, wit and virtue, believe one-fourth of what you hear. ~Traditional There is no one who became rich because he worked on a holiday, and no one who became fat because he broke a fast.  ~Ethiopian proverb. The abundance of money ruins youth. ~Traditional If you have no money, be polite. ~Danish proverb When your fortune increases, the columns of your house appear to be crooked. ~Armenian proverb I must say I hate money but it's the lack of it I hate most.  ~Katherine Mansfield The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. ~H. L. Mencken Poverty is not a shame, but being ashamed of it is. ~Traditional It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who craves more. ~Seneca Poverty consists in feeling poor. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. ~Sydney Smith (1771-1845) Many a defect is seen in the poor man. ~Irish proverb