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“There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?”
Woody Allen
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
Mark Twain
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”
Mark Twain
“Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.”
Mark Twain
“Necessity is the mother of taking chances.”
Mark Twain
“Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
Mark Twain
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Mark Twain
“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
Mark Twain
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
Mark Twain
“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”
Mark Twain
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
Mark Twain
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
Mother Teresa
“Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.”
Mother Teresa
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
Benjamin Franklin
“God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.”
Benjamin Franklin
“If you would live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.”
Benjamin Franklin
“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”
Marie Curie
“I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.”
Marie Curie
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
Marie Curie
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Marie Curie
“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
Frank Herbert
“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”
Herbert George Wells
“I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.”
Fidel Castro
“I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.”
Fidel Castro
