Subject: Life (Page 9)

I hate reality… but nevertheless, it’s still the only place to get a good steak.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

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

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

(1879 – 1972) U.S. governor (South Carolina)

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older… little things, like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman—stuff you pay good money for in later life.

(1956 – ) American comedian

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

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

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

Life: A continuous series of disasters which result in one’s death.

I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy; I can't figure it out…. what am I doing right?

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

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

(1882 – 1945) 32nd U.S. president

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

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Longevity: Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

The three things that mean the most to me in life are my parents, Casablanca and college football – not necessarily in that order.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

(1925 – 2005) television host

Life is a game, the object of which is to discover the object of the game.

Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again… Great, I’ll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.

(1937 – 2014) American co-host of radio show “Car Talk”

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