Subject: Life (Page 18)

I ordered a wake-up call the other day – the phone rang and a woman’s voice said, ‘What the heck are you doing with your life?’

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Maybe it would have been better if neither of us had been born.

(1769 – 1821) French general & politician

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

1913 – 1983) American college football coach

Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again… Great, I’ll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Life is wasted on the living.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist

It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

It is not the years in your life that count, it is the life in your years.

(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician

If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer – not a book.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.

(1927 – 2004) American comedian & actor

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967) biographer & poet

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Life is pleasant… death is peaceful; it’s the transition that’s troublesome.

(1920 – 1992) American science and science fiction author & professor

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy; I can't figure it out…. what am I doing right?

cartoon character in, Peanuts, by Charles Schulz (1922 – 2000)

Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.

writer, humorist, columnist & speaker

That's the secret to life… replace one worry with another.

cartoon character, Peanuts, Charles Schulz (1922 – 2000) cartoonist

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

(1879 – 1972) U.S. governor (South Carolina)

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Life is too short to drink cheap beer.