Subject: Life (Page 3)

Life is a gamble at terrible odds… if it was a bet you wouldn’t take it.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter

After a year in therapy my psychiatrist said to me, “Maybe life isn’t for everyone.”

(1940 – ) American basketball coach

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

(1898 – 1951) Slovene-American author & translator

Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

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

Let’s face facts, shall we?… There is a very real possibility that this could also be the last day of the rest of your life.

(1939 – ) television newscaster

I’m no angel, but I’ve spread my wings a bit.

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

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

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

(1857 – 1938) American lawyer

You live and learn… at any rate, you live.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician

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

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

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

If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.

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

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

Only in our dreams are we free; the rest of the time we need wages.

(1948 – ) English novelist

The good things in life are free, except for health care, and electricity.

American comedian & actor

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

(1923 – 1999) American satirical novelist, short story writer & playwright

Life is wasted on the living.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones who never have it.

(1867 – 1936) author & humorist

We’ve been through so much together, and most of it was your fault.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

Life is just a bowl of pits.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor