The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz 
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
It is hard enough to remember my opinions,
without also remembering my reasons for them!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
When life gets you down -
just put on your big girl panties and deal with it.
- Anonymous humor
Might I perhaps win my wings?
I've been waiting for over 200 years now, sir,
and people ARE beginning to talk.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
You may as well laugh at life,
because it's certainly laughing at you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write.
Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
All diseases run into one - old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
- Charles M. Schulz in his Peanuts cartoon
It takes a big cat to be number 2.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like a roller coaster - scream Whee... on the way down,
and let the momentum carry you back up the next hill.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
She generally gave herself very good advice,
(though she very seldom followed it).
- Lewis Carroll
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
- African Proverb
May You Dance Lightly With Life, and Have a Whimsical Day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give me the luxuries of life
and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Just remember, after they foreclose on your mortgage,
you get a lot more sunshine in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most powerful force in the universe is: gossip.
- Dave Barry
Happiness is a figment of the imagination.
Imagine happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is serious, get out your magic wand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Law of Contrariness:
Our chief want in life is somebody
who shall make us do what we can.
Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laugh at Life - it's certainly laughing at you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.
- Anonymous
I ride my blue polka-dot horse through the byways of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Yogi Berra
The difference between school and life?
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test.
In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
- Tom Bodett
When life is like a slippery downhill slope,
go skiing and scream Whee... all the way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, I Tap Dance Across The Stage of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
This is your day to Laugh at Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That's the secret to life . . .
replace one worry with another.
- Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A person is smart. People are dumb,
panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew
the Earth was the center of the universe.
Five hundred years ago,
everybody knew the Earth was flat,
and fifteen minutes ago,
you knew that humans were alone on this planet.
Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
- the movie Men in Black
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?"
Then a voice answers "Nothing personal,
your name just happened to come up. -
- Charlie Brown, in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that
one is always having surprising discoveries.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Remember that life is an ADVENTURE, and cheer Whee...
all the way down the slippery razor-blade of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who made the rule that life has to be so serious?
One would think that "life is serious" had been engraved
upon stone tablets to judge from how most lives are lived.
Get a life, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat - dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
Don't project your past onto my future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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