“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde · Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates · Plato's Apology, 399 BC
“Life is long if you know how to use it.”
Seneca · On the Shortness of Life, c. 49 AD
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
Allen Saunders · Reader's Digest, 1957
“Things go right all the time. We just don't write laws about those.”
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“The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The coin is the same. It just depends which side you're watching.”
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“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love anymore. They don't teach you how to know what's happening in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
Neil Gaiman · The Sandman, 1989
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“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love anymore. They don't teach you how to know what's happening in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
Douglas Adams · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979
“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.”
Franklin P. Jones · widely attributed
“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”
Fred Allen · widely attributed
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
Ernest Hemingway · widely attributed
