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10 Wisdom Quotes about Life

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.” – Joan Baez

“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.” – Henry Van Dyke

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.” – George Sand

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – Henry James

“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.” – Margaret Fuller

“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” – Will Rogers

“Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.” – Tom Lehrer

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard

Men and Women Quotes

Posted on February 22, 2011 by

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” – Robert Frost

“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.” – Albert Einstein

“Men are what their mothers made them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.” – Margaret Fuller

“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.” – Plato

“For most of history, ‘Anonymous’ was a woman.” – Virginia Woolf

“Women are made to be loved, not understood.” – Oscar Wilde

“There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” – Will Rogers

“Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice.” – Bill Cosby

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” – Timothy Leary