All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler Enjoy life, Happy, Life, Priorities You May Also Like If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Meaningful, Thoughtful, Wise None climbs so high as he who knows not whither he is going. By Oliver Cromwell Achievement, Life, Success The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary. By Arthur Schopenhauer Life Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit. By Helena Rubinstein Enthusiasm, Life Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. By Italian saying Humble, Life, Status, Wise The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence. By Eero Saarinen Architects, Architecture, Life You May Also Like from Samuel Butler As there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, so also there is but one from the ridiculous to the sublime. By Samuel Butler Sublime Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo, not for a man. By Samuel Butler Funny, Life A man who lets himself be bored is ever more contemptible than the bore. By Samuel Butler Boredom You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. By Samuel Butler Faith, Inspirational, Positive It is seldom very hard to do one’s duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out. By Samuel Butler Duty The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on thick and exactly in the right places. By Samuel Butler Funny, Praise
If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life. By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Life, Meaningful, Thoughtful, Wise
None climbs so high as he who knows not whither he is going. By Oliver Cromwell Achievement, Life, Success
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary. By Arthur Schopenhauer Life
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. By Italian saying Humble, Life, Status, Wise
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence. By Eero Saarinen Architects, Architecture, Life
As there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, so also there is but one from the ridiculous to the sublime. By Samuel Butler Sublime
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. By Samuel Butler Faith, Inspirational, Positive
It is seldom very hard to do one’s duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out. By Samuel Butler Duty
The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on thick and exactly in the right places. By Samuel Butler Funny, Praise
