Subject: Life (Page 3)

You live and learn… at any rate, you live.

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

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

(1908 – 1999) English writer

Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

(1828 – 1885) French novelist, publicist & journalist

Some of the most well-trodden roads lead nowhere.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

(1916 – 1997) newspaper journalist

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

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

There are three things in life that people like to stare at: a flowing stream, a crackling fire and a Zamboni clearing the ice.

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

It’s good to be here… but at 98, it’s good to be anywhere.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

I've got to get out of this rut and back in the groove.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

To me life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones who never have it.

(1867 – 1936) author & humorist

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Immortality – a fate worse than death.


Life is uncertain… eat dessert first.

(1925 – ) American writer

The great mass of men lead lives of quiet domestication.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

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

Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.

(1956 – ) American comedian

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade… and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.

(1973 – ) American author of young adult fiction,

Life is short, but it’s long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

(1818 – 1885) humorist