Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use some men have lived long and lived little attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
More Quotes from Michel Eyquem de Montaigne:
In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Man QuotesI was able to get along with everybody. I really enjoyed all of those guys. They were unique in their own ways, and I think that's what made the sport fun. We had a great time laughing and having fun.
Lee Haney
I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
Iris Dement
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
Charles Dudley Warner