Subject: Life (Page 7)

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

(1880 – 1964) Irish dramatist

Life is not for everyone.

(1940 – 1994) American writer & performer

If life was a party, he wasn’t even in the kitchen.

(1948 – ) English novelist

It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is the same damn thing over and over.

(1892 – 1950) poet

It’s not the men in my life that counts, it’s the life in my men.

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

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.

(1927 – 2004) American comedian & actor

I’ve developed a new philosophy… I’m only going to dread one day at a time.

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

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

(1935 – ) British author

I like life… it's something to do.

comedian

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

When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.

(1969 – ) American actress, film director & producer

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

I am one of those people who just can’t help getting a kick out of life – even when it’s a kick in the teeth.

(1900 – 1962) Russian – Jewish madam & author

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

The harsh truth is that the cause of death is birth.

(1937 – ) English painter, printmaker, stage designer & photographer

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer

It is not the years in your life that count, it is the life in your years.

(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician

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

(1899 – 1995) humorist

Digestion is the great secret of life.