Quotes with life-form

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• Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

  ― Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

  ― Socrates
  Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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• Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
  

  ― Charlie Chaplin
  British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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• Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

  ― Anton Chekhov
  Russian playwright and short story writer
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• Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

  ― George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
  

  ― Woody Allen
  American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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• Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
  

  ― H. Jackson Brown Jr
  American author (1940 - 2021)
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• Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

  ― H. Jackson Brown Jr
  American author (1940 - 2021)
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• Life drew me and I followed it.

  ― Alfred Rosenberg
  German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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• Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

  ― William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

  ― Doug Larson
  American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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• Life flows on within you and without you.

  ― George Harrison
  English musician, singer and songwriter (1943 - 2001)
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• Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

  ― Virginia Woolf
  English writer (1882 - 1941)
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• Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.

  ― Abraham Cowley
  English poet (1618 - 1667)
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• Life gives nothing to man without labor.

  ― Horace
  Roman poet
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• Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

  ― Philip Larkin
  English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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• Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

  Source: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963) Closing lines of the preface.

  ― Carl Gustav Jung
  Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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• Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

  ― Georges Bataille
  French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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• Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

  ― Oliver Goldsmith
  Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• imponderable
• serviceable
• television
• expectancy
• vegetables
• confidence

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