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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you read more
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Life is hard. After all it kills you.
Life is hard. After all it kills you.
Mankind makes living contradictory.
Mankind makes living contradictory.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span:
In his conception wretched, from the read more
The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span:
In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb.
Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and
fears.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust,
But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.