When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to… — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do [in Winter Journal] is to tell the story of a man's life from birth, but there are… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Not everything in man's life is summed up in the problem of food. Anyone who thinks that a civilization can be founded… — Toyohiko Kagawa Copy Share Image
To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put… — Mabel Collins Copy Share Image
Seventeen's not so young. A hundred years ago people got married when they were practically our age." "Yeah, that was before electricity… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
We would not think of allowing a man to determine a woman's life merely because a fetus he helped create was in… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the… — Osamu Tezuka Copy Share Image
A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a… — Homer Copy Share Image
You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man… — Ben Feldman Copy Share Image
The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise,… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
“What is my true substance? What will remain of me after my death? Our life is as short as a raging fire:… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Oh, if a man tried To take his time on earth And prove before he died What one man's life could be… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“On principle' one can do anything and what one does is, fundamentally, a matter of indifference, just as a man's life remains… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
There comes a time in every man's life when he wakes up drunk on the toilet and begins to doubt the choices… — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The positive sum of pleasures in a modern man's life is undoubtedly greater than was to be found in more primitive communities,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image