Subject: Life (Page 6)

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

(1908 – 1999) English writer

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

(1903 – 1957) Hungarian-American mathematician

As you slide down the banister of life, you are bound to pick up a splinter or two in your arse.

Australian horse trainer

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

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

We live in a world where John Lennon was murdered, yet Barry Manilow continues to put out f**king albums.

(1961 – 1994) comedian

Maybe it would have been better if neither of us had been born.

(1769 – 1821) French general & politician

I've got to get out of this rut and back in the groove.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

When you're born, you have a finger up your nose, the other hand on your dick, and you get taller; and that is really it.

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

I think I am, therefore I am… I think.

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

In larger things we are convivial – What causes trouble is the trivial.

(1906 – 1989) American poet & author

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

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

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

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

Living is messy.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

There are two great rules of life: 1. Never tell everything at once.

(1931 – ) American golfer & broadcaster

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

comedian

‘Pessimist’ is a word used by optimists to describe someone who sees the world for what it really is.

(1948 – ) English novelist

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

I do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor