Margaret Anderson Quotes

Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs.

Almost everybody embraces life.

Life's too short to just breeze on by.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.

Despite everything, I have few regrets. I have crammed a lot of living into my time.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

It's better to have a pocket full of regrets than to never have lived.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

It's like, God, I'm in my 80s. Nobody, when I die, is going to say, 'How young?' They're going to say she had a great ride.

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.

Life is a full meal.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

I think the idea is when you're on your death bed to say you did a lot of different, interesting things, not just that you have a more expensive lining in your coffin.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.