Friday, March 27, 2009

New Life Quotes

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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