Subject: Life (Page 17)

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn’t be any fun living in it, or profit.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

Try everything once except incest and folk dancing.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

(1928 – ) humorist, singer, songwriter & satirist

I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.

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'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

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

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

(1898 – 1951) Slovene-American author & translator

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.

(1950 – ) American science fiction writer, & publisher

Do not punish yourself, you deprive the world of its purpose.

(1967 – ) English comedian

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round.

(1935 – ) British author

No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

(Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich) (1859 – 1916) Jewish author & humorist

I do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

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

(1916 – 1997) newspaper journalist

The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.

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

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

(1919 – 1990) publisher & author

I expect to pass through this world but once and therefore if there is anybody I want to kick in the crotch I had better kick them in the crotch now, for I do not expect to pass this way again.

(1898 – 1971) English classical scholar & academic

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

(1880 – 1964) Irish dramatist

It is not a fragrant world.

(1888 – 1959) detective novelist & screenwriter

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist