To me, life is like the back
nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be
stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles
intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.
-- Clint Eastwood |
If you rest, you rust.
-- Helen Hayes |
I enjoy life. I think I'll
enjoy death even more.
-- Cat Stevens |
You can't expect to hit the
jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
-- Flip Wilson |
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime
you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90%
probability you'll get it wrong.
-- Andy Rooney |
The day after tomorrow is the
third day of the rest of your life.
-- George Carlin
(Sometimes a Little Brain Damage Can
Help, 1984) |
If all the world's a stage, I
want to operate the trap door.
-- Paul Beatty |
Life is like stepping onto a
boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.
-- Shunryu Suzuki Roshi |
I always wait for the Times
each morning. I look at the obituary column and if I’m not in it, I go to
work.
-- A. E. Matthews
(quoted in Filmgoer's Book of Quotes,
1973) |
In life, it's not who you
know that's important, it's how your wife found out.
-- Joey Adams |
To solve the human equation,
we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth
and error.
-- Janet Coleman |
We are all in the gutter, but
some of us are looking at the stars.
-- Oscar Wilde
(Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892) |
Home wasn't built in a day.
-- Jane Sherwood Ace |
We live in an age when pizza
gets to your home before the police.
-- Jeff Marder |
Half our life is spent trying
to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to
save.
-- Will Rogers |
Life can only be understood
backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard |
I always wanted to be
somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
-- Lily Tomlin |
I wanna live 'til I die, no
more, no less.
-- Eddie Izzard |
There are no passengers on
Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
-- Marshall McLuhan |
Life is what happens to you
while you're busy making other plans.
-- John Lennon
(from Beautiful Boy - 1980) |
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