love life quotes to live by

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends. ~Saki



A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~Donna Roberts



When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. ~Confucius



A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. ~John Muir



A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown



If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. ~Diogenes the Cynic



Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. ~George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections



Diplomacy: The art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock. ~Wynn Catlin



Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary Phoebe: "It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!... It's a poem. By Robert Burns."



I cannot afford to waste my time making money. ~Louis Agassiz



She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XVIII "A Flood of Sunshine"



The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. ~Peter De Vries



It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. ~Voltaire



It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented. ~Lemony Snicket



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Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me. ~Lord Chesterfield



When I die, bury me on the golf course so my husband will visit. ~Author Unknown



Every wise man lives in an observatory. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished. ~Lord Chesterfield