Life ain't all you want, it's all you 'ave... so 'ave it! - Anon

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. - Danny Kaye

You will think me lamentably crude. My experience of life has been drawn from life itself. - Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) (Zuleika Dobson)

Life is unsure, always eat your dessert first. - Anon

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. - Truman Capote

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. - Johnny Carson

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little. - Thomas Aloysius Dorgan

Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. - Anon

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another, it is the same damn thing over and over. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end. - Anon

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it. - Tom Stoppard

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. - John Updike

Life was a muddle... a football game with everyone off-side and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side. - F Scott Fitzgerald

Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape. - Anon

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life. - William Wordsworth

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the Mystery of his life - a life like the scriptures, figurative - which such people can no more make out thsan they can the Hebrew Bible. - John Keats

Everyone has to have some experience to assure himself life is worth living. - Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

He was working hard at increasing his lifespan.    He did it by cultivating boredom.  Dunbar was working so hard at increasing his lifespan that Yossarian though he was dead.- Joseph Heller ('Catch-22')

One's work should be a salute to life. - Pablo Casals (1876-1973)

All say, 'How hard it is to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
        Elie Wiesel (Oct. 1986)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. - Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)

There are only two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. - Logan Pearsall Smith  (1865-1946)

But boldly say each night,
Tomorrow let my sun his beams display,
Or in clouds hide them;
I have lived today!
       Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)

Nothing can harm a good man, either in life or after death. - Socrates (469-399 BC)

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.   Life was meant to be lived.   Curiousity must be kept alive.   One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. - Eleanor Roosevelt

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. - Emily Dickinson

Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey.   It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again.   What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived. - 'Captain Picard' in the film "Star Trek: Generations"

But my life now, my whole life, independently of anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no longer meaningless, as it was before, but has a positive meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it. - Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina) 1829-1910

What religion not only promises a better life herafter, but also organizes a series of five-year plans to realize that better life here and now? - R Osborn

Our lives are like a candle in the wind. - Carl Sandburg

I spent the afternoon musing on Life.    If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is!   So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.  - Bertie Wooster in P G Wodehouse's 'Rallying round Old George'

When I was born I was nearly fourteen.   That is why I found it easier than most people to realise what life was all about. - Ionesco

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. - Christopher Morley

Happiness is the ony sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. - George Santayana

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. - George Santayana