life philosophy quotes

There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask. ~Colette



Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real. ~Author Unknown



When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. ~Marty Bucella



The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb



Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. ~Cicero Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. ~Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations, 1950



The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. ~Henry Miller



Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else. ~David Chase, The Sopranos, "Pilot," original airdate 10 January 1999, spoken by the character Carmela Soprano



A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. ~Doug Larson



No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. ~Plutarch



In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. ~Marcel Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927



Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt. ~Judith Olney



Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. ~David Ben-Gurion



Right is more precious than peace. ~Woodrow Wilson



The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~Hanna Rion



It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. ~John Kenneth Galbraith



I don't care if they call me "baldie" or "chrome dome." God took an eraser and brushed my head clean. I'd rather be bald on top than bald inside. ~Joe Garagiola, 1975



In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. ~Charles Kendall Adams



We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. ~Nick Faldo



Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise. ~Proverbs 20:1



Art is not a thing; it is a way. ~Elbert Hubbard