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| ( President Ronald Reagan) | Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem." | |
| Adrienne E. Gusoff | Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies. | |
| Anonymous | The trouble with real life is that there's no danger music. | |
| Anonymous | You don't know what you don't want until you have it permanently. | |
| Anton Chekhov | Any idiot can face a crisis -- it's the day to day living that wears you out. | |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. | |
| Ashleigh Brilliant | Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story | |
| Ashleigh Brilliant | My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. | |
| B. Fisher (1952 - ) | The reason Easterners think so highly of themselves is because they haven't got any mountains to remind them of just how small they are. | |
| Ben Hogan | May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters. - (Professional Golfer) | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881) | Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. | |
| Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) | Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. | |
| C. C. Colton | The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain, is our funeral; and the only thing we are sure to want happens to be the only thing we never purchase- our coffin. | |
| Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) | Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certian he would get well if he were by the window. | |
| Christopher Isherwood | Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. | |
| Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957) | Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. | |
| Cicero | Not to be born is much the best thing for man, and the next best thing is to die as soon as possible. | |
| Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938) | The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. | |
| Crowfoot (1821 - 1890) | What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath
of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across
the grass and loses itself in the sunset. - (Native American warrior and orator) | |
| Dan Bellack | Life is too short for traffic. | |
| Daryll Harkless (1975 - ) | The wise man learns from his mistakes...The wiser man learns from the mistakes of others. | |
| David Lucht (8/25/1954 - ) | Live hardy, eat lightly. - (Artist) | |
| Descartes (1596 - 1650) | Cognito, ergo sunk. | |
| Dick Werthimer | The purpose of life is to fight maturity. | |
| Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967) | Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania. | |
| Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001) | You live and learn. At any rate, you live. | |
| Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001) | Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast. | |
| Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953) | Isn't life a terrible thing, thank God? | |
| Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) | There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. - (THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH) | |
| Edmund Burke 1729-1797 (1729 - 1797) | Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. - (In conversation to Tom Quinn) | |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. | |
| Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) | We are obliged to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred. | |
| Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915) | Life is just one damned thing after another. | |
| Fran Lebowitz | Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. | |
| Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993) | In the fight between you and the world, back the world. | |
| Garry Trudeau (1948 - ) | I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence. | |
| George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) | A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. | |
| George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) | Life is a disease: and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. | |
| George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) | Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. | |
| George Eliot | One way of getting to know our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. | |
| George Santayana (1863 - 1952) | There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. | |
| George Santayana (1863 - 1952) | Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. | |
| George Santayana (1863 - 1952) | Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together. | |
| Graffiti | It was so cold the other day that a lawyer was spotted with his hands in his own pocket!! | |
| Graffiti | Support your local police force-Beat yourself up!! | |
| H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) | Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of a dilemma. | |
| H. L. Mencken | For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. | |
| Henry David Thoreau | The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. | |
| Henry David Thoreau | Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide. | |
| Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) | No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. | |
| Henry St. John | There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that it hardly seems worth while to be here at all. | |
| J. S. Mill | Ask yourself if you are happy, and you cease to be. | |
| James M. Barrie | Life is a long lesson in humility. | |
| James Thurber | All human beings should try to learn before they die, What they are running from, and to, and why. | |
| Jean Rostand | My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. | |
| John F. Kennedy | Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy growth. | |
| John Lennon | Life is what happens while you are making other plans | |
| John Muir (1838 - 1914) | In my first interview with a Sierra bear we were frightened and embarrassed, both of us, but the bear's behavior was better than mine. - (Naturalist) | |
| John Muir (1838 - 1914) | I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was eager for another as much as it was made for itself. - (naturalist) | |
| John Updike | Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. | |
| John Wayne | Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. | |
| John Wayne (1907 - 1979) | I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please. | |
| Jonathan Carroll (1949 - ) | To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea what'll happen next. But I'm sure it won't be pleasant. It never is. - (from the novel THE MARRIAGE OF STICKS) | |
| Joseph Allen Cavin (1965 - ) | Life is like a re-gifted box of chocolates... The box looks great, still sealed in plastic but every piece is hard, stale and only semi-sweet. - (A true curmudgeon...) | |
| Karl Kraus | Life is an effort that deserves a better cause | |
| Lily Tomlin (1939 - ) | We're all in this alone. | |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. | |
| Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948) | Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. | |
| Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) | Whoever has lived long enought to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. | |
| Mark Twain | When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. | |
| Mary A. Arnim | Life was certainly a queer business--so brief, yet such a lot of it; so substantial, yet in a few years, which behaved like minutes, all scattered & anyhow. | |
| Mathew Prior | From Ignorance our comfort flows; The only wretched are the wise. | |
| Maurice Sendak | There must be more to life than having everything. | |
| Michael Wikoff | Always keep in mind that human life is valuable only to the owner, and perhaps a few majority stockholders. | |
| Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) | Life is too important to be taken seriously. | |
| Oscar Wilde | Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. | |
| Paul Erdos (1913 - 1996) | There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave. - (Hungarian mathematician) | |
| Paul Gauguin | Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. | |
| Peter De Vries (1910 - 1993) | Life is a zoo in a jungle. | |
| Piet Hein | A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong. | |
| Piet Hein (1905 - 1996) | A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong. - (Danish poet and scientist) | |
| Piyush Gupta (1977 - ) | Reality is an oxymoron. | |
| Plutarch (46 - 127) | The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it. | |
| Quentin Crisp | The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. | |
| Ray Bradbury | We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. | |
| Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) | In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. | |
| Rodney Dangerfield | Life is just a bowl of pits. | |
| Ronnie Shakes | I like life. It's something to do. | |
| Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) | Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. | |
| Samuel Butler | Life is one long process of getting tired. | |
| Sean O'Casey | All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. | |
| Sidney J. Harris | Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" | |
| Sir Arthur Eddington | We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong. | |
| Socrates | If we were all to bring our misfortunes into a common store, so that each person should receive an equal share, the majority would be glad to take up their own and depart. | |
| Socrates | The unexamined life is not worth living. | |
| Solomon Short | There's no such thing as a long and happy life. A long life means saying goodbye to old friends one after the other. | |
| Soren Kierkegaard | Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards | |
| Stephen Millich (1941 - ) | The only constant in life is change. | |
| T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) | Birth and copulation and death, That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks. | |
| Theodore Dreiser | Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousend are bastards. | |
| Theodore Sturgeon | Ninety percent of everything is crap. | |
| Thomas Carlyle | A well-written life is as rare as a well-spent one. | |
| Thomas Hobbes | During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe...where every man is enemy to every man. In such conditions there is no place for Industry...no Arts; no Letters; no Society:...and the life of man solitary, poore, nasty, brutish and short. | |
| timothy mayo (1986 - ) | If things were the way i saw them, everyone would have a lot more fun. | |
| Tom Stoppard | Life is a gamble at terrible odds; if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. | |
| Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) | Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. | |
| Unknown | Life is a sexually transmitted disease. | |
| Unknown | No one is a virgin, because life has screwed us all. | |
| unknown | Impetus ad periculum/I run to danger | |
| Unkown | A fool and his money are some party! | |
| Unkown | I started out to be a pessimist but gave it up. I didn't think it would work out. | |
| V. Looney | Reality is intruding on my life. - (Former Dancer) | |
| Vince Clancy (1941 - ) | You ain't old until you're dead! | |
| Vince Clancy (1941 - ) | Life causes death! | |
| Vince Clancy (1941 - ) | Life - the entertainment is free! | |
| Voltaire | In the great game of human life one begins by being a dupe and ends by being a rogue. | |
| Walt Haskins | To expect life to be rewarding without taking risks is like expecting a lottery to pay you without having made the gamble. - (Author of "Comments USA") | |
| Walter Bagehot | The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. | |
| Wayne Saxon | It's hard to remember that your initial goal was to drain the swamp when you're up to your butt in alligators. | |
| Will Rogers (1879 - 1935) | Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. | |
| William James (1842 - 1910) | Believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact. - (psychologist and philosopher) | |
| William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) | Thus bad begins but worse remains behind. | |
| William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) | It is the bright day that brings forth the adder. | |
| William Shakespeare | Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. | |
| Winston Churchill | Life is too short to drink bad wine. | |
| Woody Allen (1935 - ) | Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. | |
| Woody Allen (1935 - ) | Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. | |
| Yogi Berra (1925 - ) | Remember that whatever you do in life, 90 percent of it is half mental. |
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