Quotes with mid-life

Quotes 2161 till 2180 of 4256.

  • Marquis de Sade Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Carl Lewis M so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Sydney Smith Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • William Ernest Henley Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.
    William Ernest Henley
    English poet, critic and editor (1849 - 1903)
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  • Frances Cornford Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
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  • Peace Pilgrim Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Make your life a mission - not an intermission.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Federico Fellini Making movies is my vacation. All the rest - the traveling about to premiers, the social life, the endless arguments with producers who don't understand me - that is the work.
    Federico Fellini
    Italian film director (1920 - 1993)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • William James Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Aristotle Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Aldous Huxley Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Cat Stevens Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Menander of Athens Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
    Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Man's life is a warfare against the malice of men.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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