quotes on life lessons

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you. ~Mae West



Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting... there are quite enough real causes of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators. ~George Orwell



I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday. ~Author Unknown



God's mill grinds slow, but sure. ~George Herbert



Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money. ~John Lyly



It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. ~Harry S Truman



Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised. ~Edward Dahlberg, The Sorrows of Priapus, 1957



If you ride like there's no tomorrow, there won't be. ~Author Unknown



One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. ~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story



You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired. ~Author Unknown



Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are. ~Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, 1899



Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



We love men. We just don't want to see them naked. ~Two Nice Girls



Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item, however, is the machinery. ~Martin H. Fischer



Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. ~Samuel McChord Crothers Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein



A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys. ~Michael Oakeshott, On History



My childhood smells like a box of Crayola crayons. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651



It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed. ~Horace



The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?" ~Jeremy Bentham