George Washington Quotes

I don't know if the money I've earned is going to need to last me for the next few weeks or the rest of my life.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

It's an awful risky thing to live

You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.

For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.

People don't expect to die tomorrow, but they do take out insurance, don't they?

Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.

The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

We like to think of life as a constant ... Yet it can be ended in a heartbeat.

I didn't know what my fate was as far as being alive.

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

The readiness is all.

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.

For life is a fire burning along a piece of string--or is it a fuse to a powder keg which we call God?--and the string is what we don't know, our Ignorance, and the trail of ash, which, if a gust of wind does not come, keeps the structure of the string, is History, man's Knowledge, but it is dead, and when the fire has burned up all the string, then man's Knowledge will be equal to God's Knowledge and there won't be any fire, which is Life. Or if the string leads to a powder keg, then there will be a terrific blast of fire, and even the trail of ash will be blown completely away.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.

The only certainty is death.

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time.

Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.