Evan Esar Quotes

Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.

A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have.

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

It's not age that makes a life. It's what you do with it.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Death is Inevitable. Living a life we can be proud of is something we can control.

There is no such thing as an optimum life.

Whether I live long or short is not the question: what quality that I surrounded myself is!

Your trade becomes very much impacted by the quality of your life experiences and your capacity to process them.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Your reactions are the key to having a wonderful life.

I've come to realize that life is what you make it.

Width of life is more important than length of life.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

A good life is a main argument.

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

You cannot judge the value of a life by its length.

There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.