With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the read more

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built as we discern.

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too read more

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven read more

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss read more

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come read more

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.

Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long.

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. -Ashleigh Brilliant.

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. -Ashleigh Brilliant.