In the end, everything is a gag.
—Charlie Chaplin, 1974
***
What is life but a series of inspired follies?
—George Bernard Shaw, 1912
Life is just one damn thing after another.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1909
Life is a four-letter word.
—Lenny Bruce
6
Life is never fair.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
—Paul Gauguin, 1903
Life is pain, Highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something
7
—William Goldman, 1987
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
—Lucretius, first century BC
Life is a warfare.
—Seneca, 64 AD
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare, it is a day’s labor, […] where we may think and sing
and enjoy as we work.
—John Burroughs, 1913
Life is an offensive directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
—Alfred North Whitehead, 1933
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
—Carl Sandburg
8
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
—O. Henry, 1906
Life is a protracted struggle against the Adversary, who is man himself.
—Max Lerner, 1959
6
As quoted, without a date, in several reputable sources including Wikiquote.
7
Cf. “Life’s good”, the LG corporation’s motto.
8
As quoted, without a date, in several reputable collections, starting not later than 1970.
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—Charlie Chaplin, 1974
***
What is life but a series of inspired follies?
—George Bernard Shaw, 1912
Life is just one damn thing after another.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1909
Life is a four-letter word.
—Lenny Bruce
6
Life is never fair.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
—Paul Gauguin, 1903
Life is pain, Highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something
7
—William Goldman, 1987
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
—Lucretius, first century BC
Life is a warfare.
—Seneca, 64 AD
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare, it is a day’s labor, […] where we may think and sing
and enjoy as we work.
—John Burroughs, 1913
Life is an offensive directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
—Alfred North Whitehead, 1933
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
—Carl Sandburg
8
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
—O. Henry, 1906
Life is a protracted struggle against the Adversary, who is man himself.
—Max Lerner, 1959
6
As quoted, without a date, in several reputable sources including Wikiquote.
7
Cf. “Life’s good”, the LG corporation’s motto.
8
As quoted, without a date, in several reputable collections, starting not later than 1970.
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