“I like life. It’s something to do.” -Ronnie Shakes (born Ronald Michael Sakele (1947 - 1987))
“Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.” -Annette Funicello (Annette Joanne Funicello (1942 – 2013))
Life
When life seems just a dreary grind,
And things seem fated to annoy,
Say something nice to someone else
And watch the world light up with joy.
by Author Unknown
“I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.” -Katharine Hepburn (Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1907 - 2003))
“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” -Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902): “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” (1912), ‘Life,’ ix
“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.” -Brendan Gill (1914 - 1997)
The World
This world that we’re a livin’ in
Is mighty hard to beat;
You git¹ a thorn with ev’ry² rose,
But ain’t the roses sweet!
-Frank L. Stanton (Frank Lebby Stanton (1857 - 1927))
¹ git: get
² ev’ry: every
“It never gets easier, you just go faster.” -Greg LeMond (Gregory James ‘Greg’ LeMond (born 1961))
“From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.” -Christopher Darlington Morley (1890 - 1957)
“Life is a gift. Never take it for granted.” -Author Unknown
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Overheard: How can I control my life when I cannot control my hair?
“Life’s not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.” -Terri Guillemets (born 1973)
“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand other things well.” -Hugh Walpole (Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884 - 1941))
Life
Inch by inch,
Life is a cinch.
Yard by yard,
Life is hard.
by John Updike (John Hoyer Updike (1932 - 2009))
“Life’s tragedy is that we grow old too soon and wise too late.” -Author Unknown
“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))
“So one thing I want to say about life is don’t be scared and don’t hang back, and most of all, don’t waste it.” -Joan W. Blos (Joan Winsor Blos (1928 - 2017)): “A Gathering of Days” (1979)
“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone.” -Reba McEntire (Reba Nell McEntire (born 1955))
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” -Douglas Adams (Douglas Noel Adams (1952 - 2001)): “Mostly Harmless” (1992)
“Murphy’s First Law of Infinite Priority: ‘Whatever you set out to do, something else must be done first.’” -Author Unknown
“Life is halfe* spent before we know what it is.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 911
*halfe: half.
“Life is a series of commas, not periods.” -Matthew McConaughey (Matthew David McConaughey (born 1969))
“Life is a series of events strung together like a phrase of a sentence forever changing and forever adapting. Turn the page and read on.” -Author Unknown
“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.” -Cary Grant (pseudonym of Archibald Alexander Leach (1904 - 1986))
“Now it is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it . . .” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)): “The Mixture as Before” (1940), ‘The Treasure’
“I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.” -Lily Tomlin (pseudonym of Mary Jean Tomlin (born 1939))
“The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whether it offers little or much, life is now - this day - this hour.” -Charles Macomb Flandrau (1871 - 1938): “Viva Mexico” (1912), chapter 7
“We must make the best and the most of this life, because it’s all we’ve got until we get to Heaven.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Plunge boldly into the thick of life! Each lives it, not to many is it known; and seize it where you will, it is interesting.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” -T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965)): “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915)
“The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make people stronger.” -David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
“Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.” -Author Unknown
“In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.” -Kathy Norris (Kathleen Thompson Norris (1880 - 1966))
“Life is made up of giving and getting, forgiving and forgetting.” -Author Unknown
“Life is a verb.” -Author Unknown
“May you live all the days of your life.” -Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
“Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hairstylist you like.” -Author Unknown
Overheard: When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
“We are most alive when we’re in love.” -John Updike (John Hoyer Updike (1932 - 2009))
“I think I’ve discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.” -Charles Schulz (Charles Monroe ‘Sparky’ Schulz (1922 - 2000))
“Life is nothing without friendship.” -Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.))
Overheard: You can’t have everything - where would you put it all?
“You have to take the bitter with the sweet.” -John Heywood (about 1497 - 1580): “All the Proverbs in the English Language” (1546)
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life: music and cats.” -Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
“Everything has been figured out except how to live.” -Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
“Possibly the game of Life cannot be won; but if it can be won, it will be the players in the game who win it, not the superior people who pride themselves on not knowing the difference between a fair ball and a foul, to say nothing of those in the grandstand or in the bleachers whose contribution is throwing pop bottles at the umpire.” -Max Carl Otto (1876 - 1968)
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” -Author Unknown
“When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The Summer of a dormouse.” -Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron (1788 - 1824))
“Life may not be the party we had hoped for, but while we’re here, we should dance.” -Author Unknown
“Life goes by so quickly - we have to make every moment count.” -Author Unknown
“Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!” -Garth Brooks (Troyal Garth Brooks (born 1962))
“Live each day in a way that will make you feel good about yourself tomorrow.” -Author Unknown
“The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.” -Cecil B. Demille (1881 - 1959)
“Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.” -Author Unknown
“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.” -S. I. Hayakawa (Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (1906 - 1992))
“Life goes quickly. Seize it!” -Author Unknown
“Life is a journey and it helps to have a map.” -Author Unknown
“Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it, as it is, is the only way of being happy.” -Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 - 1921)
“Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.” -David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.” -Ernestine Ulmer (born 1925)
“Our life is what we make it by our own thoughts and deeds.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912): “Light on Life’s Difficulties” (1912)
No Problem
Life is easier than you think.
All you have to do is:
accept the impossible,
do without the indispensable,
bear the intolerable,
and be able to smile at anything.
by Kathleen Norris (Kathleen Thompson ‘Kathy’ Norris (1880 - 1966))
“Just living is not enough . . . one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” -Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875)
“Work hard, play hard.” -Author Unknown
“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” -Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873 - 1954)
“Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I’ve stayed alive.” -George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
“Life is not always fair, but it can still be good if you work hard to make it that way.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The trouble with life is, that you’re halfway through it before you realize that it’s a ‘do-it-yourself’ thing.” -Author Unknown
Young Man of Cadiz
There was a young man of Cadiz,
Who concluded that life is what it is;
For he early had learnt,
If it were what it weren’t,
It could not be that which it is.
by Author Unknown
“No one finds life worth living; one must make it worth living.” -Author Unknown
“Life moves pretty fast! If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” -Author Unknown
Overheard: Life would be so much easier if everyone read the manual.
“Life is only traveled once. Today’s moment becomes tomorrow’s memory. Enjoy every moment, good or bad, because the gift of life is life itself.” -Author Unknown
“Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.” -Oliver Cromwell (1599 - 1658): letter (1658)
“Life is always at some turning point.” -Irwin Edman (1896 - 1954)
“Life is like a camel - you can make it do anything except back up.” -Marcelene Cox
“All of life is learning; therefore education can never end.” -Eduard Lindeman (Eduard Christian Lindeman (1885 - 1953))
’Tis not so bad a world
As some would like to make it -
But whether good or whether bad
Depends on how you take it.
-Author Unknown
“A happy life is made up of little things - a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent.” -Carol Holmes
“Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.” -Mary Manin Morrissey (born 1949): as quoted in John D. Moore: “Quotations for Martial Artists” (2003), page 3
“Live all you can - it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had that, what have you had?” -Henry James (Henry James, Junior (1843 - 1916))
“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.” -Henry Van Dyke (1852 - 1933)
“Live, and be happy, and make others so.” -Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851)
Laugh a little more . . . learn a little more . . . love life a little more . . . every day . . . with MFOL!
“Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.” -Annette Funicello (Annette Joanne Funicello (1942 – 2013))
Life
When life seems just a dreary grind,
And things seem fated to annoy,
Say something nice to someone else
And watch the world light up with joy.
by Author Unknown
“I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.” -Katharine Hepburn (Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1907 - 2003))
“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” -Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902): “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” (1912), ‘Life,’ ix
“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.” -Brendan Gill (1914 - 1997)
The World
This world that we’re a livin’ in
Is mighty hard to beat;
You git¹ a thorn with ev’ry² rose,
But ain’t the roses sweet!
-Frank L. Stanton (Frank Lebby Stanton (1857 - 1927))
¹ git: get
² ev’ry: every
“It never gets easier, you just go faster.” -Greg LeMond (Gregory James ‘Greg’ LeMond (born 1961))
“From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.” -Christopher Darlington Morley (1890 - 1957)
“Life is a gift. Never take it for granted.” -Author Unknown
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” -George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Overheard: How can I control my life when I cannot control my hair?
“Life’s not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.” -Terri Guillemets (born 1973)
“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand other things well.” -Hugh Walpole (Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884 - 1941))
Life
Inch by inch,
Life is a cinch.
Yard by yard,
Life is hard.
by John Updike (John Hoyer Updike (1932 - 2009))
“Life’s tragedy is that we grow old too soon and wise too late.” -Author Unknown
“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))
“So one thing I want to say about life is don’t be scared and don’t hang back, and most of all, don’t waste it.” -Joan W. Blos (Joan Winsor Blos (1928 - 2017)): “A Gathering of Days” (1979)
“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone.” -Reba McEntire (Reba Nell McEntire (born 1955))
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” -Douglas Adams (Douglas Noel Adams (1952 - 2001)): “Mostly Harmless” (1992)
“Murphy’s First Law of Infinite Priority: ‘Whatever you set out to do, something else must be done first.’” -Author Unknown
“Life is halfe* spent before we know what it is.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in George Herbert (1593 - 1633): “Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert” (1651), proverb 911
*halfe: half.
“Life is a series of commas, not periods.” -Matthew McConaughey (Matthew David McConaughey (born 1969))
“Life is a series of events strung together like a phrase of a sentence forever changing and forever adapting. Turn the page and read on.” -Author Unknown
“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.” -Cary Grant (pseudonym of Archibald Alexander Leach (1904 - 1986))
“Now it is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it . . .” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)): “The Mixture as Before” (1940), ‘The Treasure’
“I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.” -Lily Tomlin (pseudonym of Mary Jean Tomlin (born 1939))
“The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at the future; and it is appalling to contemplate the great number of often painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, so obvious, and so frequently expressed. It is good for one to appreciate that life is now. Whether it offers little or much, life is now - this day - this hour.” -Charles Macomb Flandrau (1871 - 1938): “Viva Mexico” (1912), chapter 7
“We must make the best and the most of this life, because it’s all we’ve got until we get to Heaven.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Plunge boldly into the thick of life! Each lives it, not to many is it known; and seize it where you will, it is interesting.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” -T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965)): “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915)
“The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make people stronger.” -David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
“Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.” -Author Unknown
“In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.” -Kathy Norris (Kathleen Thompson Norris (1880 - 1966))
“Life is made up of giving and getting, forgiving and forgetting.” -Author Unknown
“Life is a verb.” -Author Unknown
“May you live all the days of your life.” -Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
“Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hairstylist you like.” -Author Unknown
Overheard: When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
“We are most alive when we’re in love.” -John Updike (John Hoyer Updike (1932 - 2009))
“I think I’ve discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.” -Charles Schulz (Charles Monroe ‘Sparky’ Schulz (1922 - 2000))
“Life is nothing without friendship.” -Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.))
Overheard: You can’t have everything - where would you put it all?
“You have to take the bitter with the sweet.” -John Heywood (about 1497 - 1580): “All the Proverbs in the English Language” (1546)
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life: music and cats.” -Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
“Everything has been figured out except how to live.” -Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
“Possibly the game of Life cannot be won; but if it can be won, it will be the players in the game who win it, not the superior people who pride themselves on not knowing the difference between a fair ball and a foul, to say nothing of those in the grandstand or in the bleachers whose contribution is throwing pop bottles at the umpire.” -Max Carl Otto (1876 - 1968)
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” -Author Unknown
“When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The Summer of a dormouse.” -Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron (1788 - 1824))
“Life may not be the party we had hoped for, but while we’re here, we should dance.” -Author Unknown
“Life goes by so quickly - we have to make every moment count.” -Author Unknown
“Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!” -Garth Brooks (Troyal Garth Brooks (born 1962))
“Live each day in a way that will make you feel good about yourself tomorrow.” -Author Unknown
“The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.” -Cecil B. Demille (1881 - 1959)
“Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.” -Author Unknown
“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.” -S. I. Hayakawa (Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (1906 - 1992))
“Life goes quickly. Seize it!” -Author Unknown
“Life is a journey and it helps to have a map.” -Author Unknown
“Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it, as it is, is the only way of being happy.” -Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 - 1921)
“Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.” -David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.” -Ernestine Ulmer (born 1925)
“Our life is what we make it by our own thoughts and deeds.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912): “Light on Life’s Difficulties” (1912)
No Problem
Life is easier than you think.
All you have to do is:
accept the impossible,
do without the indispensable,
bear the intolerable,
and be able to smile at anything.
by Kathleen Norris (Kathleen Thompson ‘Kathy’ Norris (1880 - 1966))
“Just living is not enough . . . one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” -Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875)
“Work hard, play hard.” -Author Unknown
“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” -Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873 - 1954)
“Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I’ve stayed alive.” -George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
“Life is not always fair, but it can still be good if you work hard to make it that way.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The trouble with life is, that you’re halfway through it before you realize that it’s a ‘do-it-yourself’ thing.” -Author Unknown
Young Man of Cadiz
There was a young man of Cadiz,
Who concluded that life is what it is;
For he early had learnt,
If it were what it weren’t,
It could not be that which it is.
by Author Unknown
“No one finds life worth living; one must make it worth living.” -Author Unknown
“Life moves pretty fast! If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” -Author Unknown
Overheard: Life would be so much easier if everyone read the manual.
“Life is only traveled once. Today’s moment becomes tomorrow’s memory. Enjoy every moment, good or bad, because the gift of life is life itself.” -Author Unknown
“Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.” -Oliver Cromwell (1599 - 1658): letter (1658)
“Life is always at some turning point.” -Irwin Edman (1896 - 1954)
“Life is like a camel - you can make it do anything except back up.” -Marcelene Cox
“All of life is learning; therefore education can never end.” -Eduard Lindeman (Eduard Christian Lindeman (1885 - 1953))
’Tis not so bad a world
As some would like to make it -
But whether good or whether bad
Depends on how you take it.
-Author Unknown
“A happy life is made up of little things - a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent.” -Carol Holmes
“Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.” -Mary Manin Morrissey (born 1949): as quoted in John D. Moore: “Quotations for Martial Artists” (2003), page 3
“Live all you can - it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had that, what have you had?” -Henry James (Henry James, Junior (1843 - 1916))
“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.” -Henry Van Dyke (1852 - 1933)
“Live, and be happy, and make others so.” -Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851)
Laugh a little more . . . learn a little more . . . love life a little more . . . every day . . . with MFOL!
