Subject: Life (Page 6)

Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967) biographer & poet

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

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

(1903 – 1957) Hungarian-American mathematician

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

(1960 – ) English singer

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

(1871 – 1951) American artist

In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.

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

Life is not for everyone.

(1940 – 1994) American writer & performer

As soon as you’re doing what you wanted to be doing, you want to be doing something else.

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

Some of the most well-trodden roads lead nowhere.

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

(1937 – 2014) American co-host of radio show “Car Talk”

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

All life is 6 to 5 against.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.

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

(1919 – 1990) publisher & author

Puberty is a phase… fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle.

stand-up comedian

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Aren’t I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

Everything takes more time and money.

Living well is the best revenge.

writer, humorist, columnist & speaker