Best life & common Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.”

Men Life Success Common Demand Excellence Intelligence Former Excellent Latter Brilliant Ideas Common Man Service Culture

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.”

Life Life Is Games Common Common Sense No Common Sense

Book:The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol

Source: The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol

“Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.”

Men Life Mind Life Is Common Concern Calm Every Man Settling Uncertain Prudence

Book:Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing: With illustrations

Source: Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing: With illustrations

“yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.”

Life Seems Common Morning Wind Glory Garden Casts Spread Plot Torn Fragrance Scarce Beam Petals Transience

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.”

“The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.”

Life Life Is Common Common Sense Uncommon Common Life

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!”

Love Life Littles Hands Common Security Inspire Affair Friendship Love

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted, to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life, parts of piety, by doing everything in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to His glory.”

Men World Way Life Spirit Names Given Common Glory Devotion Gods Will Sole Devoted Serving God Piety Common Life

Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love

Life Quotes

Related topics

Life Quotes