SARCASM ON our LIves AND their MEANING.
Our COMIC, LITTLE AND SAD lives

«In the end, everything is a gag»
Attributed to Charles Chaplin

Contradictions, Fun and Sarcasm

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Humor about our Lives

Our lives are full of contradictions. They are often sad, little, comic... That’s why they are often a target for our own sarcasm and humour.

Life is just one damned thing after another.
Erbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer in Philistine 

Men deal with life, as children with their play
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
William Cowper, 1731-1800, English poet, Hope

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.
Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1596, French moralist, Les caractères où les moeurs de ce siècle.

When you don’t have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it’s sex. When you have both, is health. 
J. P. Donleavy, American writer, A Fairy Tale of New York

We don’t live as we wish, but as we can.
Terence, 190-159 a.C., Roman poet, The Lady of Andros 

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
George Herbert, 1593-1633, Scotish poet, Jacula Prudentum  

How many lives we live in one,
And how much less than one, in all.
Alice Cary, 1820-1871, American poet, Life's Mysteries. 

However many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.
Richard Dawkins, English biologist The Blind Watchmaker

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer, Lady Windermere’s Fan

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. 
Attributed to Ingrid Bergman, 1917-1982, Swedish actress

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
Alexander Woolcott, 1887-1943, American essayist, cited in The Algonquin Wits, de  R. E. Drennan

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West, 1892-1980, American actress, in the film She Done Him Wrong

The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
Unknown author

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
Unknown author

Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days you will be right.
Unknown author

What’s life unless an escape to death, and what’s death unless an escape to life?
Unknown author

Death is also a Theme for Our Humour

Death is to stop sinning suddenly.
Unknown author

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. 
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-American physicist, em EinsteinQuotes.html, rescomp.stanford.edu, by Kevin Harris

A man’s dying is more a survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German writer, The Magic Mountain 

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality. 
George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher, Reason in Religion  

There is no cure for birth and death unless to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher, Soliloquies in England 

We should always have our boots on, and be ready to leave.
Montaigne: Essays, 1533-1592, French philosopher

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Humor about our Lives

 

 

 

 

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