Quotations: Observations on Life

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable. - Paul Broca
If you overload people with a large number of small facts, sometimes they don't notice that it doesn't add up to anything. - Richard A. Clarke
If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. - Senegalese Proverb
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. - Italian proverb
Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. - Luigi Pirandello
There comes a time in a man's life when to get to where he has to go -- if there are no doors or windows -- he walks through a wall. - Bernard Malamud
The work will teach you to do it. - Estonian proverb
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. - Will Rogers
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't. - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
When one remembers that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. - Mark Twain
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. - Willa Cather
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. - Gloria Steinem
Experience is a marvelous thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake whenever you make it again. - Franklin P. Jones
Security is mostly a superstition...Avoiding danger is no safer than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. - Hellen Keller
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over.... - Edna St. Vincent Millay
This world it a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. - Horace Walpole
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds -- if it was a bet, you wouldn't take it. - Tom Stoppard
One may go a long way after one is tired. - French proverb