Great Life Sayings

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings." ~From the movie Mansfield Park


Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. ~Anton Chekhov


To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. ~Samuel Butler


Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. ~Kathleen Norris


When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ~Mark Twain