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It's a funny thing about life;
by W. Somerset Maugham

It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology

There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie PHOTO

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A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

 

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

Laugh Loud - Laugh Often
Laugh At What's Funny - Laugh At What's Sad
Laugh At Me - Laugh At You - Laugh At Life
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

When you reach the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
- Anonymous Saying
(Sometimes attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Eleanor Roosevelt, or Thomas Jefferson)

You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra

A person with a new idea is
a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller

When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner

If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)

Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
- Stephen Hawking

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts cartoon

Times like these, dark times,
they do funny things to people.
They can tear them apart.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde

Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg

Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain

Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand

One day Alice came to a fork in the road
and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
His responses was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll

Here are the opinions on which my facts are based.
- Anonymous

When you're drowning, you don't say,
"I would be incredibly pleased if someone
would have the foresight to notice
me drowning and come and help me,"
you just scream.
- John Lennon

I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
- W. C. Fields

I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz

I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is,
he's stuck with so many bad actors
who don't know how to play funny.
- Garrison Keillor

There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant

Today is my day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.
Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad.
Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer

You can always do one thing less than you think you can.
- Anonymous

All you need is love.
But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Charles M. Schulz

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx

The road to success is always under construction.
- Anonymous

Donkey, you HAVE the right to remain silent.
What you lack, is the capacity.
- said by Shrek in the movie Shrek 2

No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

To fall in love is awfully simple,
but to fall out of love is simply awful.
- Bess Myerson

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill

You are only young once,
but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- Anonymous

I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer

I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams

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