Skip to content

Life will be lengthened while growing, for
Thought is the measure of life.

— Charles Godfrey Leland

Another quote →

Topics

Life

More quotes by Charles Godfrey Leland

Love leads to present rapture,—then to pain;
But all through Love in time is healed again.

The brave deserve the lovely—every woman may be won.

If all the world must see the world
As the world the world hath seen,
Then it were better for the world
That the world had never been.

Hans Breitmann gife a barty—
Where ish dat barty now?

Hans Breitmann's Party (1871)

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind
From being silent brutes to singing men.

All Charles Godfrey Leland quotes →

You may also like

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Godfrey Leland (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.