Friday, March 20, 2009

Life Quotes

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.


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