life Quotes

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Friends are thieves of time.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.