Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness. -André Maurois
The forgotten man. He is the clean, quiet, virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle ... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay. -William Graham Sumner
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. -Alfred Korzybski
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker is sorry. -Mark Twain
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. -Thomas La Mance
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. -Voltaire (François Marie Arouet)
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -Clarence Darrow
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. -H. T. Leslie
What the meaning of human life may be I don't know; I incline to suspect that it has none. -H. L. Mencken
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. -Elbert Hubbard
Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide. -Henry David Thoreau
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -Maslow
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. -Goethe
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. -Nietzsche
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it. -Oscar Wilde
Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death. -Winston Churchill
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. -Eric Hoffer
Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie. -Eric Hoffer
... men work simply in order to escape the depressing agony of contemplating life -- that their work, like their play, is a mumbo-jumbo that serves them by permitting them to escape from reality. -H. L. Mencken
How little it takes to make life unbearable. ... A pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh. -H. L. Mencken
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. -Oscar Wilde
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -Mark Twain
I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men and women warmer in the winter, and happier in the summer. -Brendan Behan
Originally posted by NordlysI know. I just thought it more poetic to walk into the spring. Although, I imagine that would hurt, I can't imagine walking in the spring.
Fangorn didn't walk into the Spring, it was Spring when he walked in the willow-meads of Tasarinan.
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Ta-ha-hu-huuu...