Subject: Life (Page 9)

Living well is the best revenge.

writer, humorist, columnist & speaker

The biggest difference between the psychiatrist and the patient is that the psychiatrist has learned how to live with it.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

(1939 – ) comedian, actress, writer & producer

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

(1931 – ) American golfer & broadcaster

My psychiatrist once said to me, “Maybe life isn't for everyone.”

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

Life in Lubbock, Texas taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell; the other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth, and you should save it for someone you love.

(1945 – ) American country/folk musician & song writer

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

You're supposed to eat the cows; they're great big lumbering stupid things – they’d be everywhere if we didn’t eat them.

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

Life is too short to drink cheap beer.

Give me immortality or death.

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

(1948 – ) English novelist

Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

(1928 – ) humorist, singer, songwriter & satirist

Well, you’ve got to take the bitter with the better.

(1905 – 1974) radio comedian

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

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

Good times end too quickly. Bad times go on forever.

It’s not the men in my life that counts, it’s the life in my men.

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

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

(1769 – 1821) French general & politician

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

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

(1892 – 1950) poet