Any good phrases or quotes?

Question

Do you know any good phrases, sayings, quotes about topics such as: life, love, peace, friendship, death, separation, disease....etc.
Just anything interesting that you know.

Answer 1

Life Quotes:

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. -- Lou Erickso

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. -- Thomas L. Holdcroft

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -- Gandhiji

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. -- Ann Landers

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.-- Buddha

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you plan to stop peddling.-- Claude Pepper

Love quotes:

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. Sir James M. Barrie

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Henry Louis Mencken

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. William Shakespeare

Peace quotes:

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~Mother Teresa

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. ~Napoleon Bonaparte

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. ~Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~Attributed to both Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi

Peace hath higher tests of manhood
Than battle ever knew.
~John Greenleaf Whittier

Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ~Francesco Petrarch

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. ~John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Friendship:

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." - Charles Caleb Colton

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anais Nin

"My friends are my estate." - Emily Dickinson

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out"
-Walter Winchell

"A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else." - Len Wein - Sent by Paulo Louro

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
- Sent by Donna Roberts

"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself." - Sent by Lysha

Death:

God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~Author Unknown

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ~Mark Twain

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. ~Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon, 1929

There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year. ~Author Unknown

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~Maurice Maeterlinck

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ~Samuel Butler

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. ~Mark Twain

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. ~David Sarnoff

Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. ~Francis Bacon, Essays

If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun. ~From the television show Roseanne

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ~Henry Van Dyke

He who doesn't fear death dies only once. ~Giovanni Falcone

Separation:

http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/separation/

Disease:

"All diseases run into one, old age." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The remedy is worse than the disease." Sir Francis Bacon

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease." Guy Bellamy

"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased." Aeschylus

"All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half used minds." George Bernard Shaw

"I observe the physician with the same diligence as he the disease." John Donne

"There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." Voltaire

"Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered."

- L O L

Answer 2

one of my best quotes
Dreams Come True

Answer 3

In my opinion Shakespeare had a very nice "phrase" for the situations in which people think of themselves/others/something less or more than they should just because of a title or name:

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" (hope the quote is correct)

Answer 4

Life like a dome of many coloured glass stains the white radiance of eternity.

The distance between me was never you.

Currently, civilisation is being divided by answers when our desperate need is to unify the individual through questions.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

The best lack all conviction, and the worst rage with passionate intensity.

Honesty requires no memory.

...the recognition of error is the basis of progress...

You are being true to self when clarity causes disquiet

Answer 5

one of my personal favorite quotes

"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenburgs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York. I'm stupid about executions. The idea of being electrocuted makes me sick, and that's all there was to read about in the papers-goggle-eyed headlines staring up at me on every street corner and at the fusty, peanut-smelling mouth of every subway. It had nothing to do with me, but I couldn't help wondering what it would be like, being burned alive all along your nerves. I thought it must be the worst thing in the world."
-Sylvia Plath

Answer 6

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."-Eleanor Roosevelt
"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most."- Ozzy Osbourne
""You see it and ask, Why? I dream it and ask Why not?"- Frank Lloyd Right
"Mother is God...in the eyes of a child"-Silent Hill (movie Quote)
"I have no concept of time other than it is flying."-Alanis Morrisette

Answer 7

"I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves 'Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment.' " -Kurt Vonnegut.

If you don't get this it will seem dumb to you, but if you do get it, it's absolutely BRILLIANT. I laughed out loud for five minutes the first time I read this.

Answer 8

'better a handful of tranquility than two handsful one for toils and another for chasing after the wind'

it is pretty much self-explanatory but please allow me to discern my idea.:
be contented with what you already have for love. you're lucky that someone loves you and there right beside you. Now stick by her and don't break her heart by looking through the window of virtual beauties, toying them like puppets in your keyboard and identfying who is going to get jealous and who is not.

Answer 9

There's no profit where no pleasure is taken....Plato.


If you feel like working, stop and wait for that feeling to go away, then have some fun in whatever you're doing!0!

Answer 10

This one got me through my tenure in Iraq

'Two men looked out from prison bars, one saw mud and the other saw stars'