# Life is \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 2, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606 "2012-04-02T17:51:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Jasper\_Kent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasper_Kent)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/1 "2012-04-02T17:51:55Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/2 "2012-04-02T18:04:40Z")
Life’s a bitch, then you marry one, and THEN you die.
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### Author:  [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/3 "2012-04-02T18:28:00Z")
…a highway, I’m gonna ride it all night long.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/4 "2012-04-02T18:43:25Z")
…a board game.
…a magazine.
…a cereal.
…several movies.
…a couple of tv series.
…a one word sentence.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/5 "2012-04-02T18:51:29Z")
Life’s a beach and then you dive.
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### Author:  [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/6 "2012-04-02T18:54:21Z")
Around 1986 - shortly after the Challenger disaster - my sister came up with “life sucks, and then your spaceship blows up.”
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/7 "2012-04-02T18:55:45Z")
Life is what you make of it.
It’s an amazing world that has both sex and chocolate in it, after all.
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### Author:  [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/8 "2012-04-02T19:16:01Z")
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
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### Author:  [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/9 "2012-04-02T19:28:12Z")
Life is overrated. Especially by religious conservatives.
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### Author:  [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/10 "2012-04-02T19:29:43Z")
Life is good.
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### Author:  [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/11 "2012-04-02T19:31:15Z")
You live, you die, and inbetween you have to make several appointments for the refridgerator to be repaired.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/12 "2012-04-02T19:32:12Z")
Life! Don’t talk to me about life.
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/13 "2012-04-02T19:45:25Z")
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. \*\*
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/14 "2012-04-02T19:58:19Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Parenchyma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parenchyma)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/15 "2012-04-02T20:04:10Z")
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.”
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/16 "2012-04-02T20:15:35Z")
> [@Parenchyma](#):
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> “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!
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### Author:  [@Jasper\_Kent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasper_Kent)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/17 "2012-04-02T20:21:48Z")
> [@WordMan](#):
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> 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. \*\*
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.
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### Author:  [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/18 "2012-04-02T21:32:48Z")
Life is short but it’s wide.
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### Author:  [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/19 "2012-04-03T01:05:32Z")
Life Is A Lemon (And I Want My Money Back) – _Meatloaf_.
(Well… Jim Steinman technically). 🙂
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2012, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/20 "2012-04-03T08:18:57Z")
[Life is Sweet](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100024/).
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