Subject: Life (Page 6)

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

There is never enough time, unless you’re serving it.

(1919 – 1990) publisher & author

No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats – approximately one billion Chinese couldn’t give a shit.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

Reality continues to ruin my life.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

Life is wasted on the living.

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

Make Life Your Bitch

No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

(Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich) (1859 – 1916) Jewish author & humorist

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

(1925 – 2005) television host

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

(1914 – 1997) American writer

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

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

To the question: Do married people live longer?

Fields responded: No, it just seems longer.

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

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

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

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

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

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

(1907 – 1988) science fiction author