They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.