Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
-- Issac Asimov

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
-- Ernest Hemingway

Life's too short for chess.
-- Henry James Byron

Live in danger. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard

Life is just one damned thing after another.
-- Elbert Hubbard

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
-- Somerset Maugham

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
-- Robert Frost