Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth read more

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and
that is death!
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We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and
that is death!
[Fr., On entre, on crie,
Et c'est la vie!
On baille, on sort,
Et c'est la mort!]

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed read more

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.rn

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride read more

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or read more

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.rn