"We are in this life as it were in another man's house…. In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home."

"Die uns das Leben gaben, herrliche Gefühle, Erstarren in dem irdischen Gewühle."

": The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold."

"Grau, theurer Freund, ist alle Theorie Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum."

": My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree."

"Ein unnütz Leben ist ein früher Tod."

": A useless life is an early death."

"Singet nicht in Trauertönen."

": Sing it not in mournful numbers."

"I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go."

"Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone: Kindness in another's trouble Courage in our own."

"Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way."

"Qui n'a pas vécu dans les années voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre."

"Life's little ironies."

"[George Herbert] a conspicuous example of plain living and high thinking."

"Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's Nightingale, Love's a last year's rose."

"Life is a smoke that curls— Curls in a flickering skein, That winds and whisks and whirls, A figment thin and vain, Into the vast inane. One end for hut and hall."

"I made a posy, while the day ran by: Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie My life within this band. But time did beckon to the flowers, and they By noon most cunningly did steal away, And wither'd in my hand."

"Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of the day."

"For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!"

"Vitæ summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam. Jam te premet nox, fabulæque Manes, Et domus exilis Plutonia."

": The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home."

"Ille potens sui Lætusque deget, cui licet in diem Dixisse Vixi; cras vel atra Nube polum pater occupato, Vel sole puro, non tamen irritum Quodcunque retro est efficiet."

": That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall."

"Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis ævum."

": He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide on forever."

"Nec vixit male qui natus moriensque fefellit."

": Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy."

"Exacto contentus tempore vita cedat uti conviva satur."

": Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest."

"Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education."

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."

"The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us."

"There is but halting for the wearied foot; The better way is hidden. Faith hath failed; One stronger far than reason mastered her. It is not reason makes faith hard, but life."

"Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow."

"A fair, where thousands meet, but none can stay; An inn, where travellers bait, then post away."

"All that a man hath will he give for his life."

"I would not live alway."

"The land of the living."

"Learn that the present hour alone is man's."

"Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone."

"The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live."

""Enlarge my life with multitude of days!" In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays: Hides from himself its state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe."

"In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show."

"Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer—man a flower; He dies—alas! how soon he dies!"

"Our whole life is like a play."

"Festimat enim decurrere velox Flosculus angustæ miseræque brevissima vitæ Portio; dum bibimus dum serta unguenta puellas Poscimus obrepit non intellecta senectus."

": The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us."

"A sacred burden is this life ye bear, Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win."

"I have fought my fight, I have lived my life, I have drunk my share of wine; From Trier to Coln there was never a knight Led a merrier life than mine."