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«Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key»
Author: Alan Bennett (Actor, Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: sardine, sardines
«Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall of unless you stop pedaling.»
Author: Claude Pepper | About: Life | Keywords: bicycle, Bicycles, pedal, pedaling, riding
«Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.»
«Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.»
«Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.»
«Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Life, Music | Keywords: by ear, composed, ear, instinct
«Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little»
Author: Thomas Aloysius Dorgan | About: Life | Keywords: artichoke, artichokes
«Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.»
Author: Tom Lehrer (Mathematician, Singer, Song Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: sewer, sewers
«Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Life | Keywords: in public, solo, The Violin, violin, violins
«Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.»