# 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:** 8
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### Author: ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/41 "2012-04-04T16:46:59Z")

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Life is a terminal illness.

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### Author: ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/42 "2012-04-04T20:13:13Z")

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“Life is like an ice cream cone – you’ve gotta learn to lick it!”

Charles Schulz (through one of his _Peanuts_ characters)

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### Author: ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2012, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/43 "2012-04-04T20:23:19Z")

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> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> Life is what you make of it.
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> It’s an amazing world that has both sex and chocolate in it, after all.

And when the two are combined… HooBoy!! 😃

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### Author: ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/44 "2012-04-04T23:20:58Z")

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Life’s a bitch, then you die, but first, it hurts a lot.

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### Author: ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/45 "2012-04-05T01:28:34Z")

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> [@Bumbershoot](#):
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> Life is just one damned thing after another- Elbert Hubbard

Frank Ward O’Malley. 😉

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### Author: ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2012, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/46 "2012-04-05T11:35:57Z")

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> [@Rilchiam](#):
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> Frank Ward O’Malley. 😉

Says you!

Just kidding; an initial search turned up Hubbard’s name so I went with that, but a more in-depth search says the quote is attributed to both Hubbard and O’Malley. I couldn’t find an original source for the quote.

Either way, it’s a good quote!

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### Author: ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2012, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/47 "2012-04-05T12:19:33Z")

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Life’s a toil; then you’re soil.

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### Author: ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-_________/617606/48 "2012-04-05T20:13:10Z")

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It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. --Edna St. Vincent Millay

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