Menander Quotes

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.

Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

The present will not long endure.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

When you go through a significant injury and have a major career change, you truly do go one year at a time, and you don't look past what's going on now, because you are not sure what's going to happen. Tomorrow is not promised.

There are never any absolutes in the fashion business: one day you may like black, and the next day you like colour. I think it's a good lesson that we should never believe too much in any one thing - because the next day it's out, and if we're stuck to it, we're out, too.

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.

Wind and fortune are not lasting.

To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

Hollywood is such a fickle place, and you really have to go day to day and with the flow. Things happen so quickly, for the good or the bad. But you also have to know that everything happens for a reason.