Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. Frank Lloyd Wright
US architect (1869 - 1959) The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James
US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 - 1910) Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. Thornton Wilder
US dramatist & novelist (1897 - 1975) We think in generalities, but we live in detail. Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947) We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. John W. Gardner
US administrator (1912 - ) Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less. Jean Jacques Rousseau
French political philosopher (1712 - 1778) I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. Eleanor Roosevelt
US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962) Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. Barry Switzer
US football coach (1937 - ) Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Paul Gauguin
French Post-Impressionist painter (1848 - 1903) Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler
English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902) | 
