Mark's favorite quotes

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life

"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

tags: cats, humor, life

762 people liked it

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
— Woody Allen

tags: art, humor, life

347 people liked it

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
— Tom Clancy

tags: life

354 people liked it

"I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, life, wisdom

214 people liked it

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: brown, charlie, life

242 people liked it

"It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life."
— Anne Lamott (Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith)

tags: life

45 people liked it

"At 50, everyone has the face he deserves."
— George Orwell

tags: age, life

34 people liked it

"CALVIN:
As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight."
— Bill Watterson

tags: life

54 people liked it

"HOBBES:
Virtue needs some cheaper thrills."
— Bill Watterson

tags: life

44 people liked it

"Life is a long lesson in humility."
— James M. Barrie

tags: humility, insightful, life

30 people liked it

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."
— Harvey S. Firestone

tags: inspirational, life

78 people liked it

"Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it."
— Henry Rollins

tags: life

63 people liked it

"If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life."
— Terry Pratchett (Guards! Guards!)

tags: cynicism, humor, life

69 people liked it

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: ignorance, life

40 people liked it

"Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you."
— Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends & Influence People)

tags: inspirational, life, people

73 people liked it

"Life is too short when you think of the length of death"
— Sean Mangan

tags: death, life

53 people liked it

"Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent."
— Glen Cook (Shadow Games)

tags: cynicism, humor, life

15 people liked it

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: appreciation, life, speed, time

74 people liked it

"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."
— Jean Anouilh

tags: life, lost, love

45 people liked it

"I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living."
— Zora Neale Hurston

tags: life

50 people liked it

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
— Guillaume Apollinaire

tags: happiness, life

153 people liked it

"Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can."
— Danny Kaye

tags: adventure, art, life

44 people liked it

"When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy."
— Diablo Cody

tags: life

14 people liked it

"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: life

200 people liked it

"The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…"
— Dione Lucas

tags: art, food, life

23 people liked it

"Talk doesn't cook rice."
— Chinese proverb

tags: life, proverb, talk

16 people liked it

"Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you"
— Annie Dillard

tags: inspirational, life

31 people liked it

"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."
— Anthony Robbins

tags: life, wisdom

24 people liked it

"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering..."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

76 people liked it

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.""
— Leo Tolstoy

tags: inspirational, life, work

227 people liked it

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."
— Yutang Lin (The Importance Of Living)

tags: life, simplicity

16 people liked it

"Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority."
— Stephen Colbert

tags: life

39 people liked it

"The past can not be cured."
— Elizabeth I

tags: elizabeth, life

6 people liked it

"If you would create something,
you must be something."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: life

9 people liked it

"It's not about what you've done; it's how you've experienced whatever has happened to you. Matt Lawrence in The Overachievers"
— Alexandra Robbins

tags: inspirational, life

8 people liked it

"The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: life

17 people liked it

"When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuosly until death do them part"
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: life

62 people liked it

"Action expresses priorities."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, life, priorities

54 people liked it

"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."
— Gustave Flaubert

tags: inspirational, life, work

54 people liked it

"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
— Walt Disney Company

tags: life

72 people liked it

"The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: life

64 people liked it

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment"
— Jim Rohn

tags: life

15 people liked it

"stop asking God to bless what youre doing. find out what God's doing. its already blessed."
— Bond

tags: god, life

18 people liked it

"You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you."
— Stephen King

tags: life

29 people liked it