Subject: Life (Page 5)

You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

(1925 – 2005) television host

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

When opportunity knocks, you’ve got headphones on.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

(1960 – ) English singer

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

(1909 – 1959) Australian-born American actor

Life is strange; every so often a good man wins.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor

Is it a progress if a cannibal is using a knife and fork?

(1909 – 1966) Polish poet, writer & aphorist

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

1913 – 1983) American college football coach

I can take reality in small doses, but not as a life style.

(1939 – ) comedian, actress, writer & producer

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

(1907 – 1988) science fiction author

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

(1828 – 1885) French novelist, publicist & journalist

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which he has inflicted on men, he would kill himself.

(1824 – 1895) French writer

There is no safety in numbers… or in anything else.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.

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

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

(1856 – 1915) writer, publisher, artist & philosopher

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,