Life Quotes

The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.

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"Life is the only game where the object of the game is to play."
Mort Sahl
"Life is about balance - work hard, but don't forget to play and laugh."
Goldie Hawn
"Life's challenges are actually life's greatest teachers."
Goldie Hawn
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"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get."
Gracie Allen
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"I wish I'd given more thought to my life's destination, but I got distracted."
Gracie Allen
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"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it."
Gracie Allen
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Gracie Allen
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"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
Gracie Allen
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"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end."
Gilda Radner
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"We're all pretty bizarre. The things we think about, the things we say, the things we do. We're all weird. And then we get a little horrible as we get older."
Gilda Radner
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"Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful."
Gilda Radner
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"The most important audition is the one with yourself."
Gilda Radner
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"Life is too short for boring people."
Gilda Radner
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"Live life like you're writing a story worth reading."
Gilda Radner
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"Life is too short to take seriously, but too serious not to appreciate."
Mort Sahl
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"We spend our lives preparing for a future that never arrives."
Mort Sahl
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"If I had to live my life over again, I would try to make fewer mistakes, but the same mistakes if possible."
Lily Tomlin
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"Life is full of surprises; I'm still trying to be surprised properly."
Lily Tomlin
"I've been in and out of New York three times."
Fred Allen
"Life is like a B-picture script - it's not whether it's good or bad, it's the way you narrate it."
Fred Allen
"Life is about creating yourself."
Fred Allen
"Life is the sum of small things."
Fred Allen
"Like all young men you will have to endure discomfort and disappointment."
Fred Allen
"Old age is no place for sissies."
Phyllis Diller
"The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby."
Phyllis Diller
"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."
Phyllis Diller
"You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels."
Phyllis Diller
"I've learned that keeping up with the Joneses is a full-time job."
Phyllis Diller
"I read that we spend a third of our life sleeping. I'd like to spend more time waking up."
Phyllis Diller
"The reason I'm so good at playing a housewife is that I am one."
Phyllis Diller