25 Funny Quotes About Life

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By ryankett

1. "Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still." - Lou Erickso

2. "Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep." - Carl Sandburg

3. "Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination." - Christopher Isherwood

4. "Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty." - Djuna Barnes

5. "Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?" - Bob Monkhouse

6. "Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." - Woody Allen

7. "Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast." - Douglas Adams

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

9. "Life is like an onion. Why is life like an onion? Because you peel away layer after layer and when you come to the end you have nothing." - Proverb

10. "Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent." - R. D.Laing

11. "I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it." - Charles Schulz

12. "My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can." - Cary Grant

13. "Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep." - Fran Lebowitz

14. "I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it." - Jack Handy

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

16. "Life is just one damned thing after another." - Erbert Hubbard

17."Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable." - Woody Allen

18. "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." - Oscar Wilde

19. "Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key." - Alan Bennett

20. "Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it." - Buckminster Fuller

21. "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." - Isaac Asimov

22. "Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it." - Tom Lehrer

23. "Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." - Samuel Butler 

24. "My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other." - Josh Billings

25. "The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time." - John Barrymore

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chuckandus6 profile image

chuckandus6 Level 2 Commenter 9 months ago

Great Hub I love quotes they are fun

Have a good spring

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valeriee 15 months ago

life is like a box of chocolates. you never know what you are going to get. care for a box of ACTIVE GRENADES!

"oh stewie, you just want your toy back, ok"

"hmm well.. VICTORY IS MINE!"

sums it all up for me.. although satanic one years olds are not on the agenda

Juned (; 15 months ago

Lif is like an arrow, once we have set off, there no turning back :)

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Dim Flaxenwick Level 7 Commenter 18 months ago

Great stuff.! Thanks again.

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ratelines 20 months ago

"Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep." - Carl Sandburg

Oh so right!!

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phoenixgbr 22 months ago

some good quotes - my personal favourite Bob Monkhouse quotes is "Everyone laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian; well they're not laughing now!"

Grave9 22 months ago

Funny stuff :) I really enjoyed them

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couponalbum 22 months ago

Nice hub. Very interesting quotes...

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megan_elizabeth 23 months ago

very interesting mix of quotes here...nice!

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M. T. Dremer Level 5 Commenter 23 months ago

Nice compilation. I love collecting quotes, especially ones that try to sum up complex subjects like life. You get some really creative answers.

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pinkhawk 23 months ago

...nice quotes, you can smile and ponder.. :) thank you for sharing! :)

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SwiftlyClean Level 1 Commenter 23 months ago

Enjoyed this hub, thanks for sharing a laugh.

Sharon Smith

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healthgoji 23 months ago

Lively quotes. Thank you for sharing.

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Eric Calderwood 23 months ago

I like #2 and #6 the best.

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samboiam 23 months ago

I enjoyed these quotes. I needed to smile. Thanks for sharing.

arshumum 2 years ago

great list of quotes, you have great collections of all other niches too :) good work though

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d luck 2 years ago

thank you. worth reading.

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CarpetDiem 2 years ago

hi Ryan,

Great idea for a hub and great set of "life quotes". I especially liked, "Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination." - Christopher Isherwood

I'm afraid I suffer from too much imagination. :)

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thatreallybites 2 years ago

Great work - excellent and fun quotes

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Coolmon2009 Level 4 Commenter 2 years ago

Good hub entertaining quotes

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