What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

Create free wallpaper (Make a wallpaper or screensaver out of this quote with your image)

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another! - Laurence Sterne

---

Related Authors
James Joyce | Oliver Goldsmith | Samuel Beckett | George Moore | Don DeLillo | Emily Bronte | Peter Akinola | Henry Van Dyke |

Related Quotes

Life is not worth living if all you do is live for yourself.

Tunde Ednut

Life Worth Yourself Live

---

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

Bill O'Reilly

The measure Decent Human being Treat

---

Motivation, backed by good planning and correct action leads to success.

Aliko Dangote

Motivation Good Planning Success

---

The future belongs to crowds.

Don DeLillo

Future Belongs Crowds

---

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Beg Only Cooperate Strength

---

Law 16: Use absence to increase respect and honor

Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power)

Respect Honor Absence Increase

---

Let us stop justifying every shortcoming with that unacceptable phrase ‘the Nigerian Factor’ as if to be a Nigerian is to settle for less

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

Shortcoming Stop justifying Settle for less Nigerian

---

The proper course of action, when under attack, is usually to counterattack.

Jeff Cooper

Proper Course Action Attack

---

In tough times, communicate with your community more frequently, every few hours.

Changpeng Zhao

Tough times Communicate Frequently

---

Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable

Robert Greene

Believe Pleasurable Too many

---

Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.

William Jennings Bryan

Facts Understood Related Interpreted

---

If you can't get a job create 1

Patoranking

You Job Create Get

---

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another! - Patoranking quotes