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- Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872
- The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Music is essentially useless, as life is.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
- There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
- Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950)
- The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
- Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.
- Tom Masson
- Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
- Cullen Hightower
- We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
- Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)
- Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
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