Living and lifetime Quotes

Whether I was right or wrong at this time or that interests me no longer, since it all belongs to the past.

I desire only to witness the day of the great victory, then I shall be rewarded far beyond my merits.

Blood is upon us again, blood spilled for a perfidious king.

Time presses.

I had not the least advantage by it or benefit from it; but there it lay in a drawer, and grew mouldy with the damp of the cave in the wet seasons.

I had now brought my state of life to be much easier in itself than it was at first, and much easier to my mind, as well as to my body.

How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man!

The object is in constant change.

It is for us to determine the good life, not for Nature - not even for Nature personified as God.

Neither love without knowledge, nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.

Atisha! atisha! sneezed the old man, but he did not wake, and the shock made the bronze ring jump out of his mouth.

Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature was ever seen.

I am not content to pass away like a weaver's shuttle.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world brother

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty

Freedom means responsibility; that is the reason why most people are afraid of it

From sublime to ridiculousness there is only one step