Life(Related Subjects: Birth, Death, Age)

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act. Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000 The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. Ben Stein Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. Brendan Gill Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957) The purpose of life is to fight maturity. Dick Werthimer Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania. Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment" It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950) Life is just one damned thing after another. Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915) Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ) Life is something that everyone should try at least once. Henry J. Tillman Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. John Lennon (1940 - 1980), "Beautiful Boy" The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. Norman Thomas (1884 - 1968) Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872 Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I Life is a zoo in a jungle. Peter De Vries Life is a sexually transmitted disease. R. D. Laing The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), "Job", 1984 Life is just a bowl of pits. Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004) Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) The unexamined life is not worth living for man. Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), in Plato, Dialogues, Apology Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975) Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. Truman Capote (1924 - 1984) Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. Wally 'Famous' Amos (1936 - ) Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. William Goldman, "The Princess Bride" Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King John", Act 3 scene 4 Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. Woody Allen (1935 - ) Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. Woody Allen (1935 - ) The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. Zeno (335 BC - 264 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers