Subject: Life (Page 7)

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

(1533 – 1592) French writer

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra; in real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

I don’t live in the fast lane – I live on the off ramp.

(1925 – 1990) Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager

I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

(1978 – ) American writer

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

(1962 – ) writer & journalist

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

It’s good to be here… but at 98, it’s good to be anywhere.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

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

(1922  – 2000) American cartoonist (Peanuts)

The trick is growing up without growing old.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

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

It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.

Sam: How’s life treating you Norm?

Norm: Like it caught me sleeping with its wife.

George Wendt (1948 – ) American actor

Some of the most well-trodden roads lead nowhere.

Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.

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

(1857 – 1938) American lawyer

To live is to dance… to dance is to live.

cartoon character in, Peanuts, by Charles Schulz (1922 – 2000)

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

It’s hard to be famous and alive.

(1948 – ) English novelist

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