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Life Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse
- Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It…
- The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the…
- What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we see foreign competition…
- So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.
- I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether;…
- Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.
- But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails…
- Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life…
- It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a…
- Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
- A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own,…
- A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.
- Some time ago," he said, "--how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade…
- He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
- You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made…
- Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
- Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.
- I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four…
- As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in…
- One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth,
- Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It's like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in and out who…
- That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle