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- 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.
- 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"
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