Subject: Life (Page 18)

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

(1932 – ) British novelist & journalist

People who live in glass houses might as well answer the door.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

It’s not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

(1962 – ) writer & journalist

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

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

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

(1892 – 1950) poet

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

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist

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

(1953 – ) American comedian, writer & 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

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

(1902 – 1983) American philosopher

Life can be a bitch so at least try not to fall in love with one.

(1947 – ) comedian & actor

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today; it’s already tomorrow in Australia.

(1922  – 2000) American cartoonist (Peanuts)

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

Dick Clark went to a psychic; she told him, in a previous life, he was Dick Clark.

comedian

Somehow I never quite know what’s going on.

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

Life: A play with a lousy third act.

Living well is the best revenge.

writer, humorist, columnist & speaker

I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

It is not a fragrant world.

(1888 – 1959) detective novelist & screenwriter