Quotes about life
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.
Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another".
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
The memories we make with our family is everything.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
