Stephen Leacock Quotes

Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.

Tomorrow is no man's gift.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Every moment is an experience.

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.

While we live, let us live.

One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.

Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

Life's too short to just breeze on by.

There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.

I'm kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it's all over.

You only live once.

If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

Enjoy every sandwich.

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

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

Life's too short.

Life is short, the art long.

I want my flowers while I'm alive.