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- Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
- John Patrick, The Teahouse of the August moon, Act I, scene I, 1957
- In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and for angels to be lookers-on.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Life is one long process of getting tired.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Notebooks, 1912
- The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962), Interview, 1958
- I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.
- Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 9, 2010
- The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.
- C. Wright Mills
- The great use of a life is to spend for something that outlasts it.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact.
- Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
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