Fun & memorable quotes

Fun, famous and memorable quotes from people around the world… to make you laugh, reflect, smile, or be inspired.

 

“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”
– Robin Williams

“The music that touches you in your youth is magnified as you get older. Each record can be a virtual time machine – all you need is to hear a second or two and you go back to that place and time when you first hear it. It’s a brilliant feeling when music touches you so profoundly and stays with you through time.”
– Rob Halford

“I am old but I am forever young at heart. We are always the same age inside. Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, you can only live it once. Do not regret growing older, it’s a privilege denied to many!”
– Richard Gere

“True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I’m getting so absent-minded and forgetful. Sometimes in the middle of a sentence, I…”
– Milton Berle

“I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything till noon. That’s when it’s time for my nap.”
– Bob Hope

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
– Aristotle

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
– Mark Twain

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
– Nelson Mandela

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
– Socrates

“A smile costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.”
– Richard M. Nixon

“Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
– Francis Bacon

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
– Albert Einstein

“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.”
– Oscar Wilde

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
– Lucille Ball

“When one door closes, another one opens, but we often look so long and regretfully at the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
– Albert Einstein

“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
– Helen Keller, The Open Door

“You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.”
– Bill Watterson

“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”
– Lucy Maud Montgomery

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
– William Shakespeare

“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”
– Mark Twain

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
– Charles Dickens

“If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.”
– Robert Frost

“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.”
– Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”
– Rita Mae Brown

“Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I get it now; I didn’t get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible…and enjoying everything in between.”
– Mia Farrow

“Do what makes you happy, be with who makes you smile, laugh as much as you breathe, and love as long as you live.”
– Rachel Ann Nunes

“Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job. Forget about the thorns -the pains and problems they cause you – and enjoy life.”
– Bernard Kelvin Clive, Your Dreams Will Not Die

“Life always offers you a second chance. It’s called tomorrow.”
– Anonymous

“When nothing goes right… go left.”
– Anonymous

“Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.”
– Anonymous

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
– Stephen Covey

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Maya Angelou

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
– Henry Ford

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
– Mark Twain

“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
– Aristotle

“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
– Gloria Steinem

“It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“I’m thankful for every moment.”
– Al Green

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.”
– Kevin Kruse

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
– Lao Tzu

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
– Booker T. Washington

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot

“You become what you believe.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
– Amelia Earhart

“Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart.”
– Anthony J. D’Angelo

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss

“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
– William Shakespeare

“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.”
– Hugh Prather

“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”
– Hans Selye

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
– Albert Einstein

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
– Dalai Lama

“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan

“Life isn’t about your age. Life is about living. So when your birthday comes be thankful for the year that has just past and anticipate with a happy heart what the coming year will bring.”
– Catherine Pulsifer

“We count by changes and events within us. Not by years.”
– Charles Dickens

“Age may wrinkle the face, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”
– Danish Proverb

“Count your age by friends, count your life by smiles.”
– Author Unknown

“Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity.”
– Robin Sharma

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
– Henry Ford

“The years teach much which the days never know.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.”
– John Glenn

“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
– Coco Chanel

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?”
– Satchel Paige

“The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.”
– William Wordsworth

“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.”
– Ann Landers

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”
– Robert Browning

“As society grows great, when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people, do things for other people. That’s it, the end.”
– Anonymous

“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
– Betty Friedan

“Happiness is amazing. It’s so amazing, that it doesn’t matter if it’s yours, or not.”
– Anonymous

“My grandmother was a very tough woman. She burred three husbands and two of them were just napping.”
– Rita Rudner

“I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible.”
– Jeanne Louise Calment (1875-1997)

Note: The oldest documented living human, this French woman had all her wits about her when she reached the “super-centenarian” age of 110. With her jaunty smile, Calment charmed the world with her upbeat attitude toward aging and life.

 

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