Life

• The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. — Mark Twain
• Life is a gamble at terrible odds. If it was a bet, you wouldn't take it. — Tom Stoppard
• You have lived well if something of your influence survives to inspire others to live well. — Ralph Lee Goodman
• Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. — Hippocrates
• The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them. — Montaigne
• The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. — Horace Walpole
• The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. — William James
• Take care of your life; and the Lord will take care of your death. — George Whitefield
• That it will never come again / Is what makes life so sweet. — Emily Dickinson
• We are always getting ready to live but never living. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Life is the childhood of our immortality. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• A useless life is an early death. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Life is just one damn thing after another. — Elbert Hubbard
• It is not true that life is one damned thing after another—it is one damn thing over and over. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Life is an abnormal business.— Eugène Ionesco
• There is no wealth but life. — John Ruskin
• Life is a ride: sometimes you're barely hanging on, sometimes you throw your hands up and scream. Just hope that by the end, your hair's messed up and you didn't throw up. — Jerry Seinfeld
• There must be more to life than having everything! — Maurice Sendak
• Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. — Robert Louis Stevenson