# Life is...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 5, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268 "2004-11-05T21:43:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@daffyduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/daffyduck)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/1 "2004-11-05T21:43:21Z")
Life is a banquet and I’m just a guy with no fork.
Life is a beautiful blond in a Mercedes and I’m just a homeless guy watching her drive by.
Got any more?
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### Author:  [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/2 "2004-11-05T21:56:40Z")
From _Auntie Mame_: “Life is a banquet. And most poor suckers are starving.”
Per Steven Tyler: _Life’s a journey, not a destination._
Life’s a gamble. Play the cards you’re dealt. ~ forget who
“Life is what you make it. You can make it chicken s\*\*\*, or chicken salad.”- Lloyd Bridges in Cousins
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/3 "2004-11-05T22:09:13Z")
To paraphrase Norm from Cheers: Life is a baby and I’m a diaper
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/4 "2004-11-05T22:10:18Z")
…a cabaret, old chum.
…a bitch and then you die.
…is in the wrong forum.
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### Author:  [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/5 "2004-11-05T22:13:15Z")
I’m so confused…I always thought it was “Life’s a bitch, and then you marry one.” ?
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### Author:  [@Mr.Babbington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Babbington)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/6 "2004-11-05T22:33:32Z")
…is short and glory is fleeting.
…is a dog race and I am the rabbit.
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### Author:  [@boobooruboo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boobooruboo)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2004, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/7 "2004-11-05T23:47:18Z")
From the Bob Newhart show:
“Life is like a merry-go-round.”
(pause)
“Why?”
“They both have horses.”
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### Author:  [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2004, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/8 "2004-11-06T00:59:16Z")
by somebody (I forget)
…a highway (hum hum hum)… all night long.
Sir Rhosis
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### Author:  [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/9 "2004-11-06T01:56:05Z")
[Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries](http://www.mondaypapers.com/cover_songs/bowlofcherries.html)
(Rudy Vallee made it popular first, AFAIK. [This site](http://www.rienzihills.com/SING/lifeisjustabowlofcherries.htm) includes a midi.)
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2004, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/10 "2004-11-06T02:03:27Z")
Tom Lehrer: “Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends a lot on what you put into it.”
Keith Reid: “Life is like a beanstalk. Isn’t it?”
John Lennon: “Life is what happens while you’re making other plans.”
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### Author:  [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2004, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/11 "2004-11-06T02:04:49Z")
You are born cold, wet, and naked, then things get worse.
Not all things that count can be counted, and not all things that can be counted count.
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### Author:  [@Nightingale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightingale)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/12 "2004-11-06T02:31:51Z")
. . . is _not_ a bowl of cherries. It is a bowl of jalapenos. What you do today will burn your ass tomorrow.
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/13 "2004-11-06T02:57:29Z")
Life is an endless struggle against gravity - me
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### Author:  [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/14 "2004-11-06T03:36:21Z")
Life is a Sh\*t Sandwich, the more Bread that you’ve got the better it tastes.
Unclviny
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### Author:  [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/15 "2004-11-06T04:08:12Z")
…a box of choc-o-lates?
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### Author:  [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/16 "2004-11-06T04:35:43Z")
“Life…is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you’re stuck with this undefinable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there’s nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there’s a peanut butter cup, or an english toffee, but they’re gone too fast, and the taste is…fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts. And if you’re desperate enough to eat those, all you’ve got left is an empty box filled with useless brown paper wrappers.”
– “Smoking Man”, _The X-Files_
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### Author:  [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2004, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/17 "2004-11-06T04:38:54Z")
…better than the alternative.
…wasted on the living.
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### Author:  [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/18 "2004-11-06T04:42:01Z")
…an Eskimo Pie. Let’s take a bite.
-Frank Sinatra.
sort of
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### Author:  [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2004, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is/273268/19 "2004-11-06T05:26:49Z")
a very complex series of chemical reactions governed by the physical laws of the universe.