"When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."

Life, Care, Quiet

16

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."

Exlpore more Life quotes

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Personal Development

"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Life, Instead, Clinging, Truth, Honesty

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Path, Truth, Discovery

"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Memories, Property, Precious

"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Life, Cleansed, Conscience, Emerges

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Power, Inspirational, Truth, Wisdom

"I am born to win."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Born, Win, Destiny, Success

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Abundance, Generosity, Receiving

"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Bliss, Love, People, Unconditional

"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Truth, Wisdom, Regret

Explore more quotes by William Temple

"The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?"

God, Creation, Evil

"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home."

Home, Conversation

"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."

Company, Distrust, Man, Opinions

"I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose."

Enthusiasm, Purpose, Alchemy, Divinity

"Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to."

Men, Authority, Custom, Man

"Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves."

Time, Purpose, Complaints, Present

"The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies."

Humor, Enemies, First, Friends

"When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."

Life, Care, Quiet

"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed."

Books, Value

"The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit."

Humor, Truth, Conversation, First