Subject: Life (Page 7)

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? … in that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

To expect life to treat you good is as foolish as hoping a bull won’t hit you because you are a vegetarian.

(1952 – ) comedian, actress & writer

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

(1898 – 1951) Slovene-American author & translator

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot’s hands.

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

I quit smoking ’cause I want to live, and now that I’m not smoking, I don’t want to live anymore.

comedian

We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

Last night, I blew $5,000 on a reincarnation seminar… I figured, ‘What the hell; you only live once.’

comedian

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

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

A clean house is a sign of a misspent life.

No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.

(1953 – ) American comedian, writer & actor

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

(1919 – 1990) publisher & author

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

(1818 – 1885) humorist

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

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

I had everything a kid could want: two square meals a day, a basket to sleep in, and an imaginary dog.

(1949 – ) American co-host of radio show “Car Talk”

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

(1927 – 2004) American comedian & actor

If I had my life to live over, I’d live it over a deli.

(1926 – 2009) comedian, actor, radio – TV personality & host

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

(1908 – 1994) American actor

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

(1803 – 1869) French Romantic composer

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

(1818 – 1885) humorist