Subject: Life

People who live in glass houses might as well answer the door.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

I'm the kind of guy who will have nothing all my life and then they'll discover oil while they're digging my grave.

(1919 – 1991) American comedian & actor

We’re all going down the same road in different directions.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

(1916 – 1997) newspaper journalist

Some of the most well-trodden roads lead nowhere.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I’m kind of jealous of the life I’m supposedly leading.

(1975 – ) actor, director, screenwriter & producer

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.

(1907 – 1973) poet & critic

Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

Here’s a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress

I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

(1882 – 1945) 32nd U.S. president

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

(1803 – 1869) French Romantic composer

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

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

I don’t live in the fast lane – I live on the off ramp.

(1925 – 1990) Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

‘Pessimist’ is a word used by optimists to describe someone who sees the world for what it really is.

(1948 – ) English novelist

There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist