Quotes about life
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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 memories we make with our family is everything.
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.
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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.
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Life is anything but predictable.
Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
