The Big Book of Quotes Quotes

“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -W.M. Lewis (1878 – 1945)”
― M Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?”
― M Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. -Tallulah Bankhead (1903-68) How much of human life is lost in waiting. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) Only a life lived for others is worth living. -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)”
― M Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway. -Anon”
― M Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. -Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962)”
― M Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. -Linda Grayson One”
― M Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.”
― M Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.”
― M Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. -David Russell (1942- ) Life is all about timing...”
― M Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. -Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)”
― M Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.”
― M Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. -Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)”
― M Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good. -Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)”
― M. Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if it was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think... I think... maybe... it's both happening at the same time. -Winston Groom (1943 -), Forrest Gump”
― M. Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. -Margaret Bonnano (1950 -)”
― M Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. -Brandi Snyder Friendship”
― M Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

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― M. Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. -Jim Bouton (1939 -)”
― M. Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.”
― M. Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.  -Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 90)”
― M. Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death. -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)”
― M. Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality. -Harold Geneen (1910 -97)”
― M. Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn't make sense. -Anatole France (1844 – 1924)”
― M. Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. -William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)”
― M. Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. -Ivan Panin (1855 – 1942)”
― M. Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.  -Neil Gaiman (1960 -)”
― M. Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -André Gide (1869 – 1951)”
― M. Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. -Dr. Seuss (1904 – 91)”
― M. Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“Somewhere there is someone that dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worthwhile, so when you are lonely remember its true, someone somewhere is thinking of you. -Atul Purohit (1957 -)”
― M. Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. -Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 62)”
― M. Prefontaine, The Big Book of Quotes: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes on Life, Love and Much Else