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- Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
- Johnson
- I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
- Zona Gale
- Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.
- Kirk Douglas
- How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.
- C. C. Colton
- The more you talk to yourself, the more apt you are to lie.
- Author Unknown
- Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
- Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
- A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
- William Shenstone
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