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«Life is a cement trampoline.»
Author: Howard Nordberg | About: Life | Keywords: cement, cementing, trampoline
«Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.»
Author: Rosalind Russell | About: Life | Keywords: banquet, banquets, starving, suckers
«Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.»
«Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.»
«Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned»
«Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.»
«Life is a bowl of cherries»
Author: Proverb | About: Life | Keywords: bowl
«Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Life | Keywords: tale, tedious
«Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man»
«Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: continued, struggle