Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

18.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

19.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

20.

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

21.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

22.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

23.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

24.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

25.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

26.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

27.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

28.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

29.

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

30.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

31.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

32.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

33.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

34.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

35.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

36.

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

37.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

39.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

40.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

41.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

42.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

43.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

45.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

46.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

47.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

48.

Life is a horizontal fall.