The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

We all owe death a life.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.