Life Quotes

An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences. ~ Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini "Nobody can spoil a life, my dear. That's nonsense. Things happen, but we bob up." ~ The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy This love which I had thought was a joke and a plaything--it is only now that I understand that it is the moulder of one's life, the most solemn and sacred of all things. ~ The Adventures of Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours. ~ The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last. ~ Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens "Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life." ~ Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott I love long life better than figs. ~ Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. ~ Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. ~ The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope "Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter." ~ New Grub Street by George Gissing