We never live, but we hope to live; and, as we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable we should never be so.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Life is little more than a loan shark: it exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.

There is no wealth but life.

It is the acme of life to understand life.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told y an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

The time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.