Star Trek fans usually know the metaphors of life better than most mainstream poets. – Terri Guillemets
Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart. – H. Ross Perot
A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life. – Friedrich Hegel
Life is one big judgment call. (And a neverending series of little ones.) – Terri Guillemets
Life is abundance, as in nature when all conditions are right the tree bears fruit. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife
Lifeless with a heartbeat. – Daniel, @blindedpoet
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. – Timothy Fuller, Reunion with Murder, 1941
The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes. – Luigi Pirandello
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. – Robert Louis Stevenson
I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see. – Peggy Noonan
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. – H.L. Mencken
Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. – Ovid
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work — that goes on, it adds up. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Life is half spent before we know what it is. – George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651
When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that. – Author Unknown
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust — we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. – Albert Einstein, in The Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929
Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils…. all great, powerful souls love life. – Heinrich Heine (d.1856), “Ideas: Book Le Grand,” 1826, translated from German by
