Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Life is a jest, and all things show it; / I thought so once, but now I know it. Gay.

Life is a kind of sleep; old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake until they are to die. La Bruyère.

Life is a little gleam of time between two 5 eternities. Carlyle.

Life is a long lesson in humility. J. M. Barrie.

Life is a moment between two eternities. Channing.

Life is a plant that grows out of death. Ward Beecher.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. Johnson.

Life is a quarantine for Paradise. C. J. Weber. 10

Life is a rich strain of music suggesting a realm too fair to be. G. W. Curtis.

Life is a scale of degrees. Between rank and rank of our great men are wide intervals. Emerson.