funny quotes about life

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher


You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ~Mary Manin Morrissey


It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. ~Thomas Browne


Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold. ~Latin Proverb


Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (introduction), 1982


There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Every day is Earth Day. ~Author Unknown


A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves. ~Terri Guillemets


It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. ~Voltaire


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


The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive - a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society - a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question. ~Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957 (Thanks, Mary)


God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. ~Timaeus of Locris


One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. ~Judith Viorst


In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night. ~Mark Twain


Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover -


Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce. ~Larry Gelbart, M*A*S*H, "Bulletin Board," original airdate 14 January 1975, spoken by the character Frank Burns


Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. ~Carl Sandburg


I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. ~Sydney Smith