What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
—Edmund Burke
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Sunday, June 07, 2026
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Post #3337
Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease, and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
—Sir Walter Raleigh
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Sunday, November 02, 2025
Post #3306
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
Sunday, October 05, 2025
Sunday, June 01, 2025
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Post #3283
Life itself is a bubble and a scepticism, and a sleep within a sleep.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunday, October 06, 2024
Post #3250
Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
—José Ortega y Gasset
Sunday, September 29, 2024
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Post #3231
...some of it's magic some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.
―Jimmy Buffett (He went to Paris)
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Sunday, June 18, 2023
Sunday, January 22, 2023
Sunday, October 09, 2022
Post #3145
Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
—Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Sunday, July 31, 2022
Sunday, June 19, 2022
Post #3129
There is no more fatal blunder than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
―Henry David Thoreau
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Post #3126
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
—William Wordsworth
Sunday, May 09, 2021
Post #3071
Keep out of ruts; a rut is something which if traveled in too much, becomes a ditch.
—Arthur Guiterman
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Post #3052
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
As though to breathe were life.
—Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Post #3045
Everything dies, baby, that's a fact, but maybe everything that dies someday comes back.
—Atlantic City (written by Bruce Springsteen performed by The Band)
Sunday, July 26, 2020
Sunday, June 07, 2020
Post #3022
The life of man is a journey ; a journey that must be travelled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.
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—Oliver Goldsmith
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A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- Dave
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