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«Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.»
«Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.»
Author: Ben Irwin | About: Life
«Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.»
«Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.»
«Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.»
Author: Helen Hayes (Actress) | About: Life, Longevity | Keywords: longevity
«Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' Remember how they taught you; how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down: The legacy stops here.»
«Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.»
Author: Sophia Loren (Actress) | About: Life, Mistakes | Keywords: be due, dues, pays
«Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.»
«Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Life, Morality, Wit | Keywords: ostentatious, tumid
«Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Honor, Life | Keywords: mine