Compare Quote by Hugh B. Brown

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

— Anonymous

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

— Anonymous

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is…

— Anonymous

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”

— George Bernard Shaw

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

— George Bernard Shaw

“A man is always a teller of stories (...) and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it”

— Jean Paul Sartre

A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody…

— Mark Twain

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

— William Hazlitt

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most…

— William Allingham

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

— John Quincy Adams

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

— Ambrose Bierce