Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
(Anonymous)

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
(Anonymous)

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
(Francis Bacon)

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
(Josh Billings)

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
(Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz)

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
(Heywood Brown)

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
(Lord Byron)

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

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
(Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890)

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
(Ernest Dimnet)