Subject: Life (Page 14)

Life is a game, the object of which is to discover the object of the game.

There is never enough time, unless you’re serving it.

(1919 – 1990) publisher & author

Living in a vacuum sucks.

writer, humorist, columnist & speaker

We just had a near – life experience!

(1962 – ) writer & journalist

Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

(1928 – ) humorist, singer, songwriter & satirist

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

(1948 – ) English novelist

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.

(1939 – ) American television host, producer & author

We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot’s hands.

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

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

(1889 – 1977) English comedian, actor & film director

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

(1902 – 1983) American philosopher

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore; it is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

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

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

(1880 – 1964) Irish dramatist

For one brief moment today I thought I was winning in the game of life… but there was a flag on the play!

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

It’s a topsy-turvy world, and maybe the problems of two people don’t amount to a hill of beans; but this is our hill… and these are our beans!

(1926 – 2010) Canadian actor

There are two great rules of life: 1. Never tell everything at once.

(1931 – ) American golfer & broadcaster

Try everything once except incest and folk dancing.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)