funny life quotes and sayings

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. ~Gilbert Adair, "Under the Sign of Cancer," Myths and Memories, 1986



Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man. ~Albert Camus



God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown. ~Friedrich Neitzsche



What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown



God give me the strength to face a fact though it slay me. ~Thomas Huxley



The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before. ~Herman Melville, White Jacket



I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it. ~Heywood Hale Brown



The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. ~David Ben-Gurion



Instinct is untaught ability. ~Bain



If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today. ~Stephan Girard



The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness. ~W.E.B. DuBois



A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin



Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. ~Francis Bacon



He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. ~Marcus Aurelius



There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. ~Camille Paglia



It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings



Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. ~Douglas Jerrold, "Meeting Troubles Half-Way," 1859



Our profession is the only one which works unceasingly to annihilate itself. ~Martin H. Fischer



History is particularly important in throwing light on the source of our attitudes about sex because many of the assumptions we make are not necessarily scientific or rational but holdovers of past belief systems that are no longer held by modern society. ~Vern Bullough