Life is a wrestle with the devil, and only the frivolous think to throw him without taking off their coats. J. M. Barrie.
Life is act, and not to do is death. Lewis Morris.
Life is all a variorum; / We regard not how 25 it goes; / Let them cant about decorum / Who have characters to lose. / A fig for those by law protected! / Liberty's a glorious feast; / Courts for cowards were erected, / Churches built to please the priest. Burns, "Jolly Beggars."
Life is an earnest business, and no man was ever made great or good by a diet of broad grins. Prof. Blackie.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, / Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. King John, iii. 4.
Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; while it spinneth there is light; stop it, all is darkness. Tupper.
Life is burdensome to us chiefly from the abuse of it. Rousseau.
Life is but a tissue of habits. Amiel. 30
Life is but another name for action; and he who is without opportunity exists, but does not live. G. S. Hillard.
Life is but thought; so think I will that youth and I are housemates still. S. T. Coleridge.