Famous Quotes About life

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.