“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
As quoted in "The Science of Second-Guessing", The New York Times (12 December 2004)
“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
As quoted in "The Science of Second-Guessing", The New York Times (12 December 2004)
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
Source: Chance (1913) part II, Ch. 5
“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
Source: Quoted in Man's Search for Meaning and attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche.
“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
“The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.”
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
Variant: A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”
Variant: You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice...
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
Variant: I am not what happens to me. I choose who I become.
“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
As quoted in Mayor (1984) by Ed Koch
Attributed
“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXVI
Following the Equator (1897)
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
“Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 74
“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”
Often attributed to Dr. Seuss without citation; also cited as an anonymous proverb.
This quote has also been attributed to Gabriel García Márquez, in Spanish: "No llores porque ya se terminó, sonríe porque sucedió."
Compare lines from In Memoriam A.H.H. of Tennyson:
  'Tis better to have loved and lost
  Than never to have loved at all.
Disputed
Variant: Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.