I saw some graffitti today that said “Life’s a joke and then you croak.”
I recalled growing up with “Life’s a bitch and then you die” and later “Life’s a beach and then you drown.”
Personally, the motto I live by is kinda long: “It may be true that Life is a joke, but we should try to make it a good joke.”
What are your favorite variations?
Life’s a bitch, then you marry one, and THEN you die.
…a highway, I’m gonna ride it all night long.
…a board game.
…a magazine.
…a cereal.
…several movies.
…a couple of tv series.
…a one word sentence.
Life’s a beach and then you dive.
Around 1986 - shortly after the Challenger disaster - my sister came up with “life sucks, and then your spaceship blows up.”
Life is what you make of it.
It’s an amazing world that has both sex and chocolate in it, after all.
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Life is overrated. Especially by religious conservatives.
Life is good.
You live, you die, and inbetween you have to make several appointments for the refridgerator to be repaired.
Life! Don’t talk to me about life.
In the 70’s I seem to remember something like “Life is like a shit sandwich where every day, you take another bite - but the more bread you got, the less shit you have to eat.” Something like that.
Or John Lennon’s: **Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. **
Life’s short so love the one you got 'cause you might get run over or might get shot.
Life is hard, get a crash helmet
Life is hard, it’s even harder when you’re stupid.
Here’s one in translation from the German side of the family. Why do people think they’re so dour?
“Life is like a ladder in a chicken coop: covered in shit from top to bottom.”
This is a beautiful metaphor (simile?) set-up. You can substitute “ladder” with just about anything according to a given situation. Turd, Ming vase, gorilla, pope… Fantastic!
Oh yeah! I had forgotten about those. Lennon’s, of course, is right on.
The first one I remember shortened as “Life is a shit sandwich. The more bread you have, the less shit you eat.” Sad, but mostly true. My sandwich is fat but my bread is sliced pretty thinly.
Life is short but it’s wide.
Life Is A Lemon (And I Want My Money Back) – Meatloaf.
(Well… Jim Steinman technically). 