funny quotes about life being hard

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon



Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish Proverb



Our roots say we're sisters, our hearts say we're friends. ~Author Unknown



When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book



Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. ~Author Unknown



Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. ~Lucy Maud Montgomery



I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ~Plutarch



A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan



When safety is a factor, call in a contractor. ~Author Unknown



Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 9, spoken by the character Atticus Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? ~Thomas Hardy



When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. ~William Shakespeare



It takes a while, but eventually we appreciate that the people who were always there for the special occasions of our youth had other things to do. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. ~Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911



The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. ~Cesare Pavese



Forcing smoke down my lungs is pulmonary rape. It invades my body against my will, and it's not fair. ~Patty Young



Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland



Skipping is inner joy and outer joy. ~Author Unknown



Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists. ~Heywood Hale Broun



When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. ~Albert Einstein



A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray." ~Alan Sherman