“My philosophy
like colour TV
is all there
in black and white”
Monty Python
Life
0. There is a game.
(consequence of zeroth law of thermodynamics)
1. You can't win.
(consequence of first law of thermodynamics)
2. You can't break even.
(consequence of second law of thermodynamics)
3. You can't even get out of the game.
(consequence of third law of thermodynamics)
C.P. Snow (1905-1980) A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.
Russell Baker (1925-2019) Common sense is what tells you that the world is flat.
Anonymous Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.
Anonymous Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
Anonymous For there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some lines of truth; Nor is any poison so deadly, that it serveth not some wholesome use.
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810-1889) I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.
Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) I like pigs: dogs look up to us; cats look down on us; pigs treat us as equals.
Anonymous Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly; industriousness makes the hours short and the years long.
L'ozio rende lente le ore e veloci gli anni. L'operosità rapide le ore e lenti gli anni.
Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) If you're not confused, you're misinformed.
Anonymous It may be that your whole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
Anonymous I’ve contracted mood poisoning; it must have been something I hate.
Anonymous Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you an anchor.
Anonymous Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) Life is a beach, and then you drown.
Anonymous Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, get wasted all the time and you'll have the time of your life.
Billy Connolly (1942- ) Life is like a dog sled team: if you're not the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Anonymous Life is the whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.
Anonymous Monday is an awful way to spend one seventh of your life.
Anonymous Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
William B. Cameron People wait all week for Friday, all year for summer, and all their life for happiness.
Anonymous The moving finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
Omar Khayyam (1048-1122) The purpose of life is to create and to procreate.
Anonymous There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
W.C. Fields (1879-1946) There is no evidence to support the idea that life is serious.
Anonymous There is no need for signposts in the journey of life since the destination is always the same.
Anonymous Though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was.
John Newton (1725-1807) To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.
Anonymous We are born naked, wet and hungry; then things get worse.
Anonymous When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Anonymous Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching.
Anonymous You can go the rest of your life without breathing.
Anonymous
