Subject: Life (Page 15)

I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

Life is like a dogsled team; if you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

I’m kind of jealous of the life I’m supposedly leading.

(1975 – ) actor, director, screenwriter & producer

I intend to live forever… or die trying.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

When opportunity knocks, you’ve got headphones on.

I wanna live ’til I die, no more, no less.

(1962 – ) English stand-up comedian & actor

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

(1922 – 2003) author & playwright

Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.

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

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

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

stand-up comedian

Next to Sammy’s life, my life has always appeared dull. Then again, next to a barnacle’s life, my life has always appeared dull.

George Wendt (1948 – ) American actor

As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex… except for salami and eggs; now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.

(1927 – 2004) American comedian & actor

I expect to pass through this world but once and therefore if there is anybody I want to kick in the crotch I had better kick them in the crotch now, for I do not expect to pass this way again.

(1898 – 1971) English classical scholar & academic

For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.

(1939 – ) comedian, actress, writer & producer

When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967) biographer & poet

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

(1862 – 1937) novelist & short story writer

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.