Subject: Life (Page 16)

I don’t want to live on in my work, I want to live on in my apartment.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

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

(1818 – 1885) humorist

Life: A sexually transmitted disease with 100% fatality rate.

In a perfect world, a fair world, Bob Hayes should be forced to carry a small calf on his shoulder when he runs the dashes…Mark Spitz, in all fairness, would swim with a sea anchor…[and] Ella Fitzgerald must sing every note with a mouth full of Tootsie Rolls.

(1919 – ) American sportswriter

I'm the kind of guy who will have nothing all my life and then they'll discover oil while they're digging my grave.

(1919 – 1991) American comedian & actor

Life is one long process of getting tired.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z; work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

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

(1953 – ) American comedian, writer & actor

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

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

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

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

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

That's the secret to life… replace one worry with another.

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

Man can not live by bread alone … he must have peanut butter.

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor

The way I see life, is like we’re all flying on the Hindenburg… why fight over the window seats?

(1957 – 2007) American stand-up comedian & actor

Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

(1916 – 1997) newspaper journalist

Drama is life with the dull bits left out.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

I’d rather die while I’m living then live while I’m dead.

(1946 – ) singer, songwriter, author & businessman

Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence