Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Life is just part of the big picture.

Life is just part of the big picture.

The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and
Everything . . . [is] read more

The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and
Everything . . . [is] Forty-two.

This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and read more

This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in read more

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

Let us live then, and be glad
While young life's before us
After youthful pastime had,
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Let us live then, and be glad
While young life's before us
After youthful pastime had,
After old age had and sad,
Earth will slumber over us.
[Lat., Gaudeamus igitur,
Juvenes dum sumus
Post pucundam juventutem.
Post molestam senectutem.
Nos habetit humus.]

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is read more

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good read more

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy -- I mean that if you are happy you will be good.